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The Speeches of Ronald Reagan
The Speeches Of Ronald Reagan is an anthology of thirty-five extraordinary speeches from the life of Ronald Reagan. These speeches paint a vivid portrait of the man and his times in unforgettable words.
From his first political address, through the unforgettable speeches of his Presidency, and down to his farewell message, The Speeches Of Ronald Reagan chronicles his thirty-year-long public conversation with the American people. The perfect reference for library readers and researchers, The Speeches Of Ronald Reagan is an easy-to-use authoritative collection of President Reagan's most memorable speeches, edited down to their essential elements.
The Speeches Of Ronald Reagan includes:
A Time For Choosing (1964): You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the lasts step into a thousand years of darkness.
We The People (1967): With all the profound wording of the Constitution, probably the most meaningful words are the first three: "We, the People."
The First Inaugural Address (1981): Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
The Evil Empire (1983): They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
Terrorism (1985): The American people are not - I repeat - not going to tolerate intimidation, terror, and outright acts of war against this nation and its people.
The Challenger Disaster (1986): We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."
The Berlin Wall (1987): Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
The Long Goodbye (1994): I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
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The Speeches of Barack Obama
Barack Obama: Speeches On The Road To The White House is designed to be an easy-to-access, all-in one anthology of the historic speeches that changed American politics forever. This wide-ranging and representative collection of thirty major speeches by Barack Obama has been edited down to the eloquent essentials, presented in a straightforward chronological format, and placed in contemporary context.
This comprehensive collection of these most important and thought-provoking speeches traces the evolution of Barack Obama's use of powerfully persuasive political language over a period of six tumultuous years, beginning with 2002's anti-Iraq "Dumb Wars Speech" and culminating with the thrilling Election Night 2008 "Victory Speech." Eloquent in their delivery and inspiring in their content, the speeches in Barack Obama: Speeches On The Road To The White House will inform readers, writers, and researchers.
Barack Obama: Speeches On The Road To The White House includes:
We Are One People! (2004): We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope?
The Courage To Do Extraordinary Things (2005): In America, ordinary citizens can somehow find in their hearts the courage to do extraordinary things. That change is never easy, but always possible. And it comes not from violence or militancy or the kind of politics that pits us against each other and plays on our worst fears, but from great discipline and organization, and from a strong message of hope.
This Is Our Time! (2006): This is our time. Our time to make a mark on history. Our time to write a new chapter in the American story. Our time to leave our children a country that is freer and kinder, more prosperous and more just than the place we grew up.
Withdrawal From Iraq (2006): The time for waiting in Iraq is over. It is time to change our policy. It is time to give Iraqis their country back. And it is time to refocus America's efforts on the wider struggle yet to be won.
Bending History (2007): Decades from now . . . when the words that we will speak in the next few years are long forgotten, I hope you remember this as a moment when your own story and the American story came together, and history bent once more in the direction of justice.
A More Perfect Union (2008): I have asserted a firm conviction, a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people, that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.
Yes, We Can! (2008): This is our time . . . to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that, out of many, we are one, that while we breathe, we hope. And, where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can!
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The Speeches Of Abraham Lincoln
The Speeches Of Abraham Lincoln is an anthology of twenty memorable speeches and two famous letters from the life of Abraham Lincoln. The history of the country's most turbulent time is brought to us in the stirring words of our sixteenth president. The perfect reference for library readers and researchers, The Speeches Of Abraham Lincoln is an easy-to-use authoritative collection of President Lincoln's most memorable speeches, edited down to their essential elements.
The Speeches Of Abraham Lincoln includes:
The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions (1837): At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us,it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
The Dred Scott Decision (1857): Chief Justice Taney, in delivering the opinion of the majority of the Court, insists at great length that Negroes were no part of the people who made, or for whom was made, the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution of the United States.
A House Divided Against Itself (1858): "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
The Cooper Union Address (1860): Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
First Inaugural Address (1861): The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863): I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me . . . do order and declare that all persons held as slaves . . . are, and henceforth shall be, forever free.
The Gettysburg Address (1863): That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
A Day Of Thanksgiving (1864): It has pleased almight God to prolong our national life another year.
Second Inaugural Address (1865): With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in - to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
The Last Speech (1865): We all agree that the seceded States, so called, are out of their proper practical relation with the Union; and that the sole object of the government, civil and military, in regard to those States, is to again get them into that proper practical relation.
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