Give me liberty : speakers and speeches that have shaped America /
"Give me liberty," demanded Patrick Henry, "or give me death!" Henry's words continue to echo in American history and that quote, and the speech it comes from, remains one of the two or three known to almost every American. The other speeches that have become part of our Ame...
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New York, NY :
Pegasus Books,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Defining freedom
- Patrick Henry, 1736-1799 : "Give me liberty or give me death"
- Daniel Webster, 1782-1852 : "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"
- The Abolitionists. James W.C. Pennington, c. 1807-1870 : "God of Liberty, save us from this clause" ; Wendell Phillips, 1811-1884 : "I am a fanatic" ; Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895 : "Freedom ... is the right to choose"
- The Suffragists. Angelina Grimké, 1805-1879 : "Deliver me from the oppression of men" ; Abby Kelley Foster, 1811-1887 : "Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you have come hither" ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902 : "No just government can be formed without the consent of the governed"
- Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 : "A new nation, conceived in liberty"
- William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925 : "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945 : "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
- Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965 : "A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular"
- Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 : "Man is not free unless government is limited"
- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968 : "I have a dream."