Introduction -- 8th-1st centuries BC / the classical orators -- c. AD 26 The Sermon on the Mount / Jesus of Nazareth -- 1096 The Council of Clermont / Pope Urban II -- 1653 Dismissing the Rump Parliament / Oliver Cromwell -- 1794 The political philosophy of terror / Maximilien Robespierre -- 1796 Farewell address / George Washington -- 1814 Farewell to the Old Guard / Napoleon Bonaparte -- 1851 Aren't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- 1863 The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln -- 1877 I will fight no more forever / Chief Joseph -- 1913 Freedom or death? / Emmeline Pankhurst -- 1916 There is no salvation for India / Mohandas Gandhi -- 1918 The Fourteen Points / Woodrow Wilson -- 1925 Scopes trial / Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan -- 1939 Farewell to baseball / Lou Gehrig -- 1939 First soldier of the German Reich / Adolf Hitler -- 1940 Three wartime speeches / Winston Churchill -- 1941 Anniversary celebration of the October Revolution / Joseph Stalin -- 1941 A date which will live in infamy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- 1944 Speech before D-Day / George S. Patton -- 1947 A tryst with destiny / Jawaharlal Nehru -- 1949 The Chinese people have stood up / Mao Zedong -- 1960 Wind of change / Harold Macmillan -- 1961 Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy -- 1963 I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 1974 Today I am an inquisitor / Barbara Jordan --1980 The lady's not for turning /Margaret Thatcher -- 1987 Tear down this wall / Ronald Reagan -- 1990 Freedom from fear / Aung San Suu Kyi -- 1992 A whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher -- 1994 Let freedom reign / Nelson Mandela -- 1995 Women's rights are human rights / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- 1996 American family values / Christopher Reeve -- 2001 Declaration of war on the United States / Osama bin Laden -- 2002 The axis of evil / George W. Bush -- 2008 Victory speech / Barack Obama.