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Johnson357 -- This is the goal (1966) /Roy Jenkins362 -- A tiny ripple of hope (1966) /Robert Kennedy366 -- The decent opinion of mankind (1967) /Eugene McCarthy372 -- We will be free (1968) /Melina Mercouri376 -- I shall not seek nor will I accept nomination as your president (1968) /Lyndon B. Johnson380 -- I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood (1968) /Enoch Powell383 -- The time has come for an honest government (1968) /Richard Nixon392 -- A womans civil right (1969) /Betty Friedan396 -- Millions will rejoice (1971) /Edward Heath400 -- Au revoir (1974) /Richard Nixon403 -- Our human stock is threatened (1974) /Sir Keith Joseph405 -- Let me give you my vision (1975) /Margaret Thatcher409 -- I late, ignorance and evil (1975) /Chaim Herzog413 -- The red flame of Socialist courage (1976) /Michael Foot418;Do not reject this man (1960) /Eugene McCarthy291 -- A new frontier (1960) /John F. Kennedy294 -- The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans (1961) /John F. Kennedy297 -- That man was Eichmann (1961) /Gideon Hausner301 -- We will fight, fight and fight again (1961) /Hugh Gaitskell308 -- The brotherhood of man (1961) /Iain Macleod310 -- Duty -- Honor -- Country (1962) /Douglas MacArthur313 -- The end of a thousand years of history (1962) /Hugh Gaitskell319 -- Ich bin ein Berliner (1963) /John F. Kennedy322 -- Never glad confident morning again (1963) /Nigel Birch324 -- I have a dream (1963) /Martin Luther King327 -- The white heat of technology (1963) /Harold Wilson332 -- Let us continue (1963) /Lyndon B. Johnson334 -- An ideal for which I am prepared to die (1964) /Nelson Mandela337 -- The Great Society (1964) /Lyndon B. Johnson;The supreme justiciar of the German people (1934) /Adolf Hitler133 -- England again dares to be great (1935) /Oswald Mosley136 -- They shall not pass (1936) /La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibarruri)137 -- The forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match (1936) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt139 -- The locust years (1936) /Winston Churchill141 -- I shall always trust the instincts of our democratic people (1936) /Stanley Baldwin143 -- The Jews carry Palestine in their hearts (1936) /Chaim Weizmann146 -- I have determined to renounce the Throne (1936) /Edward VIII153 -- The House today is a theatre which is being watched by the whole world (1936) /Stanley Baldwin155 -- God Save the King (1936) /Edward VIII158 -- I stake my life (1937) /Leon Trotsky160 -- The oppression is growing (1937) /Martin Niemoller164 -- My patience is now at an end (1938) /Adolf Hitler;There is no salvation for India (1916) /Mahatma Gandhi47 -- Ireland summons her children to the flag (1916) /Proclamation of the Irish Republic50 -- In Ireland alone, in this twentieth century, is loyalty held to be a crime (1916) /Roger Casement52 -- The world must be made safe for democracy (1917) /Woodrow Wilson59 -- A new phase in the history of Russia begins (1917) /V.I. Lenin62 -- The dustbin of history (1917) /Leon Trotsky65 -- We need an army (1918) /Leon Trotsky66 -- While there is a lower class, I am in it (1918) /Eugene V. Debs69 -- A fit country for heroes to live in (1918) /David Lloyd George72 -- American I was born (1919) /Henry Cabot Lodge75 -- Man will see the truth (1919) /Woodrow Wilson78 -- A man as low and mean as I can picture (1919) /Alfred E. Smith81 -- The eyes of the whole Empire are on Ireland today (1921) /George V83;199 -- A grave danger hangs over our country (1941) /Joseph Stalin203 -- A date which will live in infamy (1941) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt206 -- The final solution (1942) /Reinhard Heydrich208 -- We will stand and fight here (1942) /General Bernard Montgomery211 -- Give me your children (1942) /Chaim Rumkowski214 -- The vision of such an Ireland (1943) /Eamon de Valera218 -- That son of a bitch Patton again (1943-4) /General George Patton221 -- Obliteration is not a justifiable act of war (1944) /Bishop George Bell223 -- Our deep moral dependence (1945) /J. Robert Oppenheimer227 -- The iron curtain (1946) /Winston Churchill231 -- A choice between the quick and the dead (1946) /Bernard Baruch234 -- The noble mansion of free India (1947) /Jawaharlal Nehru237 -- The light has gone out of our lives (1948) /Jawaharlal Nehru241;What is the joy about? (1978) /Alexander Solzhenitsyn421 -- Home Thoughts from Abroad (1979) /Roy Jenkins424 -- The dream shall never die (1980) /Edward Kennedy429 -- We are reaping the whirlwind of all our yesterdays (1981) /Michael Heseltine431 -- The Falklands Factor (1982) /Margaret Thatcher434 -- Our neighbours are indeed like us (1982) /Robert Runcie436 -- I warn you (1983) /Neil Kinnock439 -- We do not want a Poland which costs us nothing (1983) /Pope John Paul II441 -- The great she-elephant, she who must be obeyed (1984) /Denis Healey444 -- A monstrous carbuncle (1984) /Prince Charles446 -- Let us make a vow to the dead (1984) /Ronald Reagan449 -- You cant play politics with peoples jobs (1985) /Neil Kinnock451 -- The future doesnt belong to the fainthearted (1986) /Ronald Reagan454;166 -- Peace for our time (1938) /Neville Chamberlain170 -- My bead erect (1938) /Duff Cooper171 -- A total and unmitigated defeat (1938) /Winston Churchill172 -- Is this an attempt to dominate the world by force? (1939) /Neville Chamberlain175 -- This country is at war with Germany (1939) /Neville Chamberlain179 -- In the name of God, go (1940) /Leo Amery181 -- Sacrifice the seals of office (1940) /David Lloyd George184 -- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat (1940) /Winston Churchill187 -- Be ye men of valour (1940) /Winston Churchill188 -- This was their finest hour (1940) /Winston Churchill190 -- The flame of French resistance (1940) /Charles de Gaulle191 -- This little steamer (1940) /J.B. Priestley194 -- The arsenal of democracy (1940) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt196 -- The four freedoms (1941) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt;344 -- Extremism in defence of liberty is no vice (1964) /Barry Goldwater347 -- A time for choosing (1964) /Ronald Reagan350 -- More African than American (1965) /Malcolm X353 -- We shall overcome (1965) /Lyndon B.;Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? (1987) /Neil Kinnock456 -- Now is the time (1988) /Edward Kennedy459.;I have in my hand ... (1950) /Joseph McCarthy243 -- The agony and the sweat (1950) /William Faulkner246 -- There is only one hope for mankind (1951) /Aneurin Bevan248 -- Lets talk sense to the American people (1952) /Adlai Stevenson251 -- The motion of destiny (1953) /Kwame Nkrumah253 -- History will absolve me (1953) /Fidel Castro257 -- Shall we choose death? (1954) /Bertrand Russell262 -- There comes a time when people get tired (1955) /Martin Luther King265 -- We must abolish the cult of the individual (1956) /Nikita Khrushchev267 -- We have to act up to different standards (1956) /Aneurin Bevan274 -- Naked into the conference chamber (1957) /Aneurin Bevan277 -- Hola Camp (1959) /Enoch Powell279 -- An ugly society, a rulgar society, a meretricious society (1959) /Aneurin Bevan282 -- The wind of change (1960) /Harold Macmillan286;Non-violence is the first article of my faith (1922) /Mahatma Gandhi85 -- A message to every land where the Jewish race is scattered (1922) /A.J. Balfour91 -- The sounds of England (1924) /Stanley Baldwin94 -- The life of the Negro race has been a life of tragedy (1926) /Clarence Darrow96 -- I am never be guilty, never (1927) /Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti100 -- Rugged individualism (1928) /Herbert Hoover103 -- The nation has to be mobilized (1930) /Oswald Mosley106 -- We are not on trial (1930) /Ramsay MacDonald109 -- Either we do it -- or they crush us (1931) /Joseph Stalin112 -- Bolshevism run mad (1931) /Philip Snowden114 -- An indomitable aggressive spirit (1932) /Adolf Hitler116 -- The bomber will always get through (1932) /Stanley Baldwin124 -- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (1933) /Franklin Delano Roosevelt128;The doctrine of the strenuous life (1899) /Theodore Roosevelt1 -- Methods of barbarism (1901) /Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman4 -- Socialism (1901) /Keir Hardie6 -- I believe in a British Empire and I do not believe in a Little England (1903) /Joseph Chamberlain9 -- I warn the Government (1906) /F.E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead13 -- The men with the muck-rakes (1906) /Theodore Roosevelt18 -- The plight of women (1908) /Emmeline Pankhurst20 -- The Peoples Budget (1909) /David Lloyd George23 -- We are in for rough weather (1909) /David Lloyd George28 -- The new nationalism (1910) /Theodore Roosevelt30 -- Freedom or death (1913) /Emmeline Pankhurst33 -- Ulster is asking to be let alone (1914) /Edward Carson37 -- The great pinnacle of sacrifice (1914) /David Lloyd George39 -- Ireland unfree shall never be at peace (1915) /Patrick Pearse45

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First published as The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches by Viking 1992
Published with revisions in Penguin Books 1993
Second revised edition published 1999
Third revised edition published as The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches 2012

Copyright Brian MacArthur, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2012
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ISBN: 978-0-14-190916-5

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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN SPEECHES

Brian MacArthur was founder editor of Today and The Times Higher Education Supplement, and editor of the Western Morning News. He was deputy editor of the Sunday Times and executive editor of The Times. He has written Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese19421945. He has been interested in the power of oratory since first hearing Aneurin Bevan on the hustings in 1956 and has edited The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest.

Brian MacArthur lives in Norfolk and London and has two daughters.

For Maureen Waller

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Kennedy, 1966

Introduction

Oratory is always a declining art. Every generation judges contemporary speakers unfavourably against the giants of the past. At the end of the twentieth century, the speeches of the British prime minister Tony Blair were criticized (by the Tory Daily Telegraph) as being like the voice-overs in advertisements, depending on beguiling images rather than having coherent meaning in their own right. It accused Blair of using phrases not sentences. Matthew Parris, the outstanding parliamentary reporter of his generation, asked in The Times if there was no way of steering Blair clear of visionary, salvationist nouns.

Similar complaints were made eighty years earlier about Lloyd George who now stands out as one of the greatest of lyrical orators. Yet an Everyman anthology of oratory published in the 1920s complained that oratory had given way to talk. The change, according to the editor, could be seen in the natural colloquial style of Lloyd George compared with the oratorical styles of Lord Rosebery or Winston Churchill. That allegedly colloquial style, with which Lloyd George summoned the nation to the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven, now strikes us not as talk but as magnificent oratory and we complain about the dull, colloquial style of George Bush or John Major or the often messianic style of Blair.

Lloyd George himself made the same complaint when he wrote a short introduction to a collection of his speeches in 1929, arguing that the conditions of modern speaking were not conducive to the preparation of speeches that survived the controversy to which they were addressed. He was, nevertheless, an optimist. Acknowledging that first the school boards and the popular press and then the cheap entertainment offered by film, gramophone and broadcasting had been accused of destroying oratory, he pointed out that the Labour Party, the most powerful party in the state, had been created by spoken appeals from myriads of platforms.

Broadcasting will give new life and sway to speech-making. Controversy may be ruled out yet awhile by timid counsels. In the end it will force its way to the disc. A sporting nation, which is also a political people, will insist on seeing the ball kicked in one of its favourite games. When that time comes, the style of oratory may be altered to the exigencies of the machine; but the true orator will adapt his art to the occasion, and the spoken word will be more potent than ever.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were to show by their mastery of the wireless, Lloyd George was right. Since then, orators have adapted not only to radio but also to the very different demands of television which has magnified the power of oratory. Speeches can now be broadcast live round the world, as on such memorable occasions as John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis, Nelson Mandela on leaving jail after twenty-seven years or Earl Spencer delivering his philippic over the catafalque of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales, a speech that probably had the largest audience in history. Yet still the complaint is made that oratory is a declining art. According to Peggy Noonan, author of some of Ronald Reagans most memorable oratory, the irony of modern speeches is that as our ability to disseminate them has exploded their quality has declined.

Why? Lots of reasons, including that we as a nation no longer learn the rhythms of public utterance from Shakespeare and the Bible. When young Lincoln was sprawled in front of the fireplace reading Julius Caesar The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins remorse from power he was, unconsciously, learning to be a poet. You say, That was Lincoln, not the common man. But the common man was flocking to the docks to get the latest instalment of Dickens off the ship from England.

The modern egalitarian impulse has made politicians leery of flaunting high rhetoric; attempts to reach, to find the right if esoteric quote or allusion seem pretentious. They dont really know what the common man thinks any more; they forget that weve all had at least some education and a number of us read on our own and read certain classics in junior high and high school. The guy at the gas station read Call of the Wild when he was fourteen, and sometimes thinks about it. Moreover, he has imagination. Politicians forget. They go in for the lowest common denominator like a newscaster.

Any contemporary observer who relishes great oratory and who observes American presidential elections or British general elections cannot but agree with Noonans thesis. Where are the visions and where the words that inspire men and women to greater things and make them vote with enthusiasm, even passion? Both President Clinton and Tony Blair were significant improvements on their immediate predecessors but the verdict still seems to stand. The springs of oratory are drying up, it seems, as churches become deserted, the study of Latin and Greek declines, and schools fail to give students the thorough grounding in their literary and religious heritage that was once taken for granted and which inspired the great orators.

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