Inspiring Orations – Table of Contents

A Young Orator
William Pitt The Younger	The War in America Denounced (Spoken in the House of Commons when he was 22 years old)
Orations by Women
Susan B. Anthony	On Woman's Right to the Suffrage
Aung San Suu Kyi	Opening Address to NGO Women's Forum
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi	Freedom from Fear
Shirin Ebadi	Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Barbara Jordan	Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
Margaret Sanger	How Shall We Change the Law?
Frances Elizabeth Willard	Work Done for Humanity
Orations from Ancient Greece and Rome
Cicero	The Second Oration against Catiline
Demosthenes	On the Crown
Isocrates	On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia
Socrates	On Being Declared Guilty
20^th and 21^st Century Orations
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.	I Have a Dream
William McKinley	His Last Speech (Reflections on the 19th Century)
John Von Doussa QC	The Roma Mitchell Oration
Eulogistic Orations
Rufus Choate	His Eulogy of Daniel Webster
Lord Rosebery	The Robert Burns Centenary
Miscellaneous Orations
Henry Ward Beecher	His Speech on Slavery, given in Liverpool
William Cullen Bryant	His Welcome to Kossuth
Danton	Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare
Stephen Arnold Douglas	In the First Debate with Lincoln
Ulysses Simpson Grant	Reasons for Being a Republican
George Frisbie Hoar	Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous
Sir James Macintosh	A Plea for Free Speech
Napoleon I	Speech to the Directory
Napoleon I	During the Egyptian Campaign
Robespierre	Against Granting the King a Trial
William Henry Seward	His "Irrepressible Conflict" Speech
The Shawnee Chief Tecumseh	Tecumseh to Governor Harrison

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