Funeral oration / Pericles -- On his condemnation to death / Socrates -- On the union of Greece to resist Persia / Isocrates -- On the crown ; The second oration against Philip / Demosthenes -- In support of the Oppian Law / Cato, the Elder -- To his soldiers / Hannibal -- First oration against Catiline ; The fourth Philippic / Cicero -- To his conspirators ; To his troops / Catiline -- On the treatment of the conspirators / Julius Caesar -- The Catilinarian conspirators / Cato, the Younger -- Oration on the dead body of Julius Caesar / Mark Antony -- A second crusade / St. Bernard -- Sermon to the birds / St. Francis -- Before the diet of worms / Martin Luther -- On suffering persecution / John Calvin -- Before invading Silesia, 1740 ; Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757 / Frederick the Great -- Advocating the execution of Louis XVI / Desmoulins -- Against the charge of treason / Mirabeau -- "To dare again, ever to dare" ; "Let France be free!" / Danton -- Defense against the charges / Marat -- The festival of the Supreme Being / Robespierre -- At the beginning of the Italian campaign ; On entering Milan ; On beginning the Russian campaign ; Farewell to the Old Guard / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Against imperialism / Carnot -- Victor Hugo / Voltaire -- The the young men of Italy / Giuseppe Mazzini -- To his soldiers / Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Rome and Italy / Cavour -- America's welcome / Louis Kossuth -- To the delegates from Alsace / Leon Gambetta -- Appeal for Dreyfus / Emile Zola -- Christian democracy / Leo XVI -- War and armaments in Europe / Otto von Bismarck -- Germany and the war / Bethmann-Hollweg -- Address to the German people / Kaiser Wilhelm II -- Last speech / Jean Jaurès -- The spirit of France / René Viviani -- Coronation Day sermon / Cardinal Mercier -- One aim : victory / Georges Clemenceau -- To workingmen and soldiers / Alexander Kerensky -- To the Red Army / Leon Trotzky -- The dictatorship of the Proletariat / Nikolai Lenin -- Napoleon / Marshal Ferdinand Foch -- Naval disarmament / Aristide Briand --

On the dissolution of Parliament / Oliver Cromwell -- On a motion for his removal / Sir Robert Walpole -- God's love to fallen men / John Wesley -- On the right of taxing America / William Pitt, Earl of Chatham -- Conciliation with America ; Indictment of Warren Hastings / Edmund Burke -- At the trial of Warren Hastings / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- On his refusal to negotiate with Bonaparte / William Pitt -- On refusal to negotiate with Bonaparte / Charles James Fox -- The fall of Napoleon / George Canning -- On the Reform Bill / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The effect of protection of agriculture / Richard Cobden -- The "Trent" affair / John Bright -- Peace with honor / Benjamin Disraeli -- On domestic and foreign affairs / William Ewart Gladstone -- Anti-Semitism / Cardinal Manning -- The British Empire / Joseph Chamberlain -- Militant suffragists / Emmeline Pankhurst -- England's position / Sir Edward Grey -- An appeal to the nation / David Lloyd George -- The Fourth of July / Arthur James Balfour -- Peace / James Ramsay MacDonald -- Women in politics / Lady Astor -- On his seventieth birthday / George Bernard Shaw -- Justice for Ireland / Daniel O'Connell -- Protest against sentence as traitor / Robert Emmet -- The Home Rule Bill / Charles Stewart Parnell -- The Irish Free State / Arthur Griffith --

Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards -- The Boston Massacre / John Hancock -- "Give me liberty, or give me death!" / Patrick Henry -- American independence / Samuel Adams -- On the faults of the Constitution / Benjamin Franklin -- The states and the federal government / James Madison -- Justice and the Federal Constitution / John Marshall -- The Federal Constitution / Alexander Hamilton -- Inaugural address ; Farewell address / George Washington -- First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton / Gouverneur Morris -- Red Jacket ; Tecumseh / American Indians -- Adams and Jefferson / Edward Everett -- Reply to Hayne / Daniel Webster -- Second inaugural address / Andrew Jackson -- The murder of Lovejoy / Wendell Phillips -- The preservation of the Union / Rufus Choate -- Slavery / John Caldwell Calhoun -- On the Compromise of 1850 / Henry Clay -- The crime against Kansas / Charles Sumner -- The irrepressible conflict / William Henry Seward -- On being sentenced to death / John Brown -- Reply to Lincoln / Stephen Arnold Douglas -- On withdrawal from the Union / Jefferson Davis -- On his nomination to the Senate ; Farewell address at Springfield ; Address at Gettysburg ; Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The system of slavery / Henry Ward Beecher -- On woman's right to suffrage / Susan B. Anthony -- Blaine : plumed knight ; Oration at his brother's grave / Robert Green Ingersoll --

On the death of Garfield / James Gillespie Blaine -- First inaugural address/ Grover Cleveland -- The Columbian oration / Chauncey Mitchell Depew -- The American standard / Booker T. Washington -- The cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan -- The republic that never retreats / Albert J. Beveridge -- The retention of the Philippines / Henry Cabot Lodge -- Address at Buffalo / William McKinley -- Manhood or money / Robert Marion La Follette -- The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt -- Washington's birthday / Jane Addams -- Lincoln, man and America / Stephen S. Wise -- Peace without victory ; Declaration of War ; The fourteen points ; The League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- The League of Nations / William Edgar Borah -- On receiving sentence / Eugene Victor Debs -- A plea for the League of Nations / Elihu Root -- "Live-I am coming!" / Oliver Wendell Holmes (Justice) --

On Canadian Federation / Sir John A. Macdonald -- Canada, England, and the United States / Sir Wilfrid Laurier -- The voice of the Empire / Sir Robert Laird Borden --- Address at Angostura / Simon Bolivar -- Peace and empire / Jan C. Smuts -- Nationalism in India / Rabindranath Tagore -- Non-cooperation / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- National morale and world tranquility / Sun Yat-sen -- Modern trade unionism / William Green -- Religious prejudice and politics / Alfred E. Smith -- American labor / Fiorello H. LaGuardia -- A plea for mercy / Clarence S. Darrow -- The rights of labor / John L. Lewis -- Speaking for the consumer / William Allen White -- Rendezvous with despair / Thomas E. Dewey -- The Bill of Rights / Herbert Hoover -- Our government / Charles Evan Hughes -- A firm policy / Anthony Eden -- The Munich Agreement / Neville Chamberlain -- "Blood, sweat and tears" ; Dunkirk ; "Their finest hour" ; The war on Russia ; Address before the United States Congress / Winston Churchill -- The Atlantic Charter / Clement R. Attlee -- Canada and the War / W.L. Mackenzie King -- Nazis' aim is slavery / Edouard Daladier -- France will live again! / Paul Reynaud -- "I need your confidence!" / Henri Philippe Pétain -- Ireland among the nations / Eamon de Valera -- The League of Nations / Maxim Litvinov -- The position of Ethiopia / Haile Selassie -- United Hemisphere Defense / Frederico Laredo Bru -- German's claims ; No more territorial demands ; German conquests / Adolf Hitler -- A call to arms ; Anniversary of Italy's entry in the war / Benito Mussolini -- The Nazi War on Russia / Vyacheslav M. Molotov -- "Defend every inch of Soviet soil!" / Joseph Stalin -- The Triple Alliance / Fumimaro Konoye -- War between justice and force / Chiang Kai-shek -- Appeal for peace / Pius XII --

First inaugural address ; Hemisphere defense for democracy ; "The arsenal of democracy" ; Freedom of the seas ; For a declaration of war against Japan ; America's answer to Japan's challenge ; First war address before Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- "A loyal opposition" ; American liberty / Wendell L. Wilkie -- The pillars of enduring peace / Cordell Hull -- What are we arming to defend? / James Bryant Conant -- An independent policy / Charles A. Lindbergh -- A grave situation / Henry L. Stimson -- What constitutes an American / Harold L. Ickes -- We must fight for our liberties / Frank Knox -- The cross and the double cross / Fulton J. Sheen -- Hitler's plans for Canada and the United States / Dorothy Thompson -- America's second chance / Henry A. Wallace -- America and the War / Norman Thomas -- Control of atomic weapons / Bernard Mannes Baruch -- Inaugural address ; Powers of the President / Harry S. Truman -- Old soldiers never die / Douglas MacArthur -- Acceptance of nomination ; United States Far East policy / Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- Inaugural address ; Peaceful use of atomic energy ; The spirit of Geneva / Dwight David Eisenhower -- A home for American jurisprudence / Earl Warren -- An Iron Curtain has descended / Winston Churchill -- Asia finds herself again ; A glory has departed / Jawaharlal Nehru -- A new order through the United Nations / Oswaldo Aranha -- The search for international cooperation / Pierre Mendès-France -- Values of nationalism and internationalism / Dag Hammarskjold -- The lessening of international tension / Nickolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin -- On architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Peace in the atomic age / Albert Einstein -- Acceptance of the Nobel Prize / William Faulkner -- A visit to America / Dylan Thomas -- The United Nations as a bridge / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Prospect in the arts and sciences / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- A historical agreement / Walter Philip Reuther -- To the graduating class at Smith College / Adlai Ewing Stevenson --

The memory of Burns / Ralph Waldo Emerson

English friendship for America / Charles Dickens

A tribute for Oliver Wendell Holmes / Julia Ward Howe

After-dinner oratory / James Russell Lowerll

Dorothy Q. / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Through the dark continent / Henry Morton Stanley

Merchants and ministers / Henry Ward Beecher

Woman / Chauncey Mitchell Depew

The bench and the bar / Joseph Hodges Choate

A tribute to the dog / George Graham Vest

Woman! / Horace Porter

Science and art / Thomas Henry Huxley

The Old World and the New / Carl Schurz

"Pinafore" / William Schwenck Gilbert

Music / Sir Arthur Sullivan

Boston / Edward Everett Hale

The New Englanders / Ulysses Simpson Grant

New England weather ; The babies ; Woman, God bless her! / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

Harvard and Yale / Charles William Eliot

The Puritan and the Cavalier / Henry Watterson

Omar Khayyam / John Hay

The drama / Sir Henry Irving

Farthest north / Robert Edwin Peary

General Goethals and the Panama Canal / Andrew Carnegie

Englishmen and Americans / Lord Cecil

Literature and the press / Sir James Matthew Barrie

The lost tribes of the Irish in the South / Irvin S. Cobb

Wealth and education / Will Rogers

Owning books / William Lyon Phelps

Farewell address / Edward VIII

Culture / Owen D. Young

Our family creed / John D. Rockefeller, Jr.