Introduction ix 1. I Have the Heart and the Stomach of a King Queen Elizabeth I
2. I Go From a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown King Charles I3. In The Name of God, Go Oliver Cromwell 4. What England Could Do 9
Keshab Chandra Sen 5. Soldiers of My Old Guard, I Bid You Farewell 14 Napoleon Bonaparte 6. Government of the People, by the People, for the People 15 Abraham Lincoln 7. Are Women Persons? 17 Susan B. Anthony 8. The Ilbert Bill and Freedom Movement 19
Sir Pherozeshah M. Mehta 9. I am Here as a Soldier 22
Emmeline Pankhurst
10. Power to the Soviets 28
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
11. The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself 12. The Congress and the Muslims Badruddin Tyabji 13. A Date Which Will Live in Infamy Franklin D. Roosevelt 14. I Am From Now on Just First Soldier of the Reich Adolf Hitler 15. Farewell Address 55 George Washington 16. Tonic For the Hindu Mind Swami Vivekananda
Rhetoric & Speech (Books)
17. Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln 18. The Four Freedoms Franklin D. Roosevelt 19. The Nazi Invasion of Russia 87 Vyacheslay Molotov 20. Meeting of Soldiers of the Izmailovsky Regiment 90 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 21. Address to the United Nations General Assembly Queen Elizabeth II 22. Abdication Speech King Edward VIII 23. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death 97
Patrick Henry
24. Why I Became A Hindu 100
Sister Nivedita
25. A Passionate Attachment of One Nation for Another Produces a Variety of Evils 103
George Washington
26. It Is Imperative that We Agree to Conclude the Pact 119
Joseph Stalin
27. Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You 123
John F. Kennedy
Rhetoric & Speech (Books)
28. The Swadeshi Movement Gopal Krishan Gokhale 29. Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton 30. The Hypocrisy of American Slavery, 1852 Frederick Douglass 31. Nationalism in India Rabindranath Tagore 32. Address at Kingsley Hall 143 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 33. War Message Thomas Woodrow Wilson 34. Freedom Is My Birthright 151 Bal Gangadhar Tilak 35. Give Me Blood, and I Shall Give You Freedom 153 Subhas Chandra Bose 36. Quit India Speech 156 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 37. Why I Left the Swaraj Party Lala Lajpat Rai 38. The Fundamental Principle of a Republic 162 Anna Howard Shaw 39. The Arsenal of Democracy 175 Franklin D. Roosevelt 40. First Inaugural Speech 186 George Washington 41. Gandhi, His Guru 190Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
42. 1918 Statement to the Court 192
Eugene Victor Debs
43. First Fireside Chat 198
Franklin D. Roosevelt
44. Dandi March 203
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
45. American University Commencement Address 206
John F. Kennedy
46. The Fourteen Points 216 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 47. I Am Still Alive 220 Subhas Chandra Bose 48. League of Nations: Final Address 224 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 49. The Man with the Muck Rake 239 Theodore Roosevelt 50. A Tryst with Destiny 248 Jawaharlal Nehru 51. Sixth Annual Message 250 Thomas Jefferson 52. Acres of Diamonds 258 Russell Herman Conwell
53. What It Means to be Coloured in the US 292 Mary Church Terell 54. Speech at the Round Table Conference 296 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 55. India Must be Bled 299 Dadabhai Naoroji
56. Speech at Banaras Hindu University, India 302 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 57. The Tenets of the New Party 309 Bal Gangadhar Tilak 58. Resignation Speech 311 George Washington
59. Duties of American Citizenship 313 Theodore Roosevelt 60. Surrender Speech 326 Chief Joseph 61. Abolition Speech 327 William Wilberforce 62. Duty, Honour, Country 332 General Douglas MacArthur 63. Funeral Oration 338 Pericles 64. On the Death of Marie Antoinette 345 Edmund Burke 65. On the Nazi Invasion of Poland 347 Neville Chamberlaine 66. Sermon to the Birds 351
Saint Francis of Assissi 67. Encourages His Soldiers 353 Guiseppe Garibaldi 68. What Is An American? 355 Harold Ickes 69. Hopes Belied 362 Gopal Krishna Gokhale 70. Why Home Rule? 366
Annie Besant 71. In Non-cooperation Lies Success 372 Chittaranjan Das 72. Need for a Native System 376 Motilal Nehru 73. Bengal Leading the Freedom Movement 379 Tulsi Chandra Goswami
74. Boycott the Simon Commission 381 Lala Lajpat Rai 75. On the Cuban Crisis 384 John F. Kennedy 76. Justice for Ireland 392 Daniel O’Connell 77. D-Day Prayer 396 Franklin D. Roosevelt
78. The Destructive Male 399 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 79. Prevent the Revolt of His Officers 402 George Washington 80. Tribute to the Dog 406 George Graham Vest 81. ‘Muslim India’ within India 408 Muhammad Iqbal 82. Pleading for the Depressed Classes 411 B.R. Ambedkar 83. The Unkindest Cut of All 415 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 84. Dominion Status: False Card in a Pack 418
Vithalbhai J. Patel 85. The Fickle Leader 420 Subhas Chandra Bose 86. The Pleasure of Books 422 William Lyon Phelps 87. On The Festival of the Supreme Being 424 Maximilien Robespierre
88. Nazis’ Aim Is Slavery 428 Edouard Daladier 89. The Marshall Plan 430 George C. Marshall 90. Seeking British War Aims 435 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 91. Cripps Proposals 438 Sir Stafford Cripps 92. Looking to Japan for Emancipition 443 Rashbehari Bose 93. Quitting India 447 Clement Richard Attlee 94. India Free and Divided 450 Jawaharlal Nehru 95. India Integrated 453 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 96. The Curtain Falls 456 Clement Richard Attlee 97. Our National Flag 460Jawaharlal Nehru 98. Britain Salutes Free India 463Lord Mountbatten 99. On The Military-Industrial Complex 466Dwight D. Eisenhower 100. Blood and Iron 472Otto Van Bismarck