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    History's Greatest Speeches - Volume II
    History's Greatest Speeches - Volume II
    History's Greatest Speeches - Volume II
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    History's Greatest Speeches - Volume II

    By Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and W. E. B. Du Bois

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    The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this volume, featuring some of the most important people in world history. From ancient times to the American Revolution to as recently as this last century, Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time.&nb

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFt. Raphael Publishing Company
    Release dateOct 30, 2020
    ISBN9781949661361
    History's Greatest Speeches - Volume II
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    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was a store owner, postmaster, county surveyor, and lawyer, before sitting in both the House of Representatives and Senate. He was our 16th President, being elected twice, and serving until his assassination in 1865. He is best known for leading the United States through the Civil War, and his anti-slavery stance.

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      History's Greatest Speeches - Volume II - Abraham Lincoln

      cover-image, History's Greatest Speeches - Vol. II - Draft #1

      FORT RAPHAEL PUBLISHING CO.

      OAK PARK, ILLINOIS

      www.AudiobooksChicago.com

      Copyright © 2020 by Ft. Raphael Publishing Company

      All Rights Reserved.

      Edited by Kevin Theis, Ft. Raphael Publishing Company

      Front Cover Artwork and Graphics by Paul Stroili,

      Touchstone Graphic Design, Chicago

      HISTORY’S GREATEST

      SPEECHES

      VOLUME II

      CONTENTS

      ANCIENT TIMES THROUGH 1600

      Alexander the Great - Depart! - 324 BC

      Prophet Muhammad - Farewell Address - 632 AD

      17th CENTURY

      King Charles I - Execution Speech - 1649

      18th CENTURY

      Patrick Henry - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! - 1775

      19th CENTURY

      Abraham Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address - 1863

      Susan B. Anthony - On Women’s Right to Vote - 1873

      20th CENTURY

      W.E.B. DuBois - A Negro Nation Within a Nation - 1935

      ALEXANDER THE GREAT

      DEPART!

      Alexander III of Macedonia (better known as Alexander the Great) was a legendary king and brilliant military leader. He was born in 356 BC and ascended to the throne of Macedonia in 336 following the assassination of his father Philip II.

      Though only twenty years old, Alexander almost immediately embarked on a military campaign to spread his power as far and wide as possible and in ten short years managed to conquer almost the entire known civilized world.

      At his death, in Babylon, in 323 BC, Alexander’s empire stretched from Europe to Asia Minor to the Middle East and Egypt, an almost unthinkable achievement that forever enshrined him as one of the great military leaders of all time.

      The year before his death, in the summer of 324 BC a rebellion broke out at Opis, Mesopotamia. The Greek historian Arrian transcribed this speech, which Alexander delivered to the rebels.

      * * * * * * * * * * * *

      The speech which I am about to deliver will not be for the purpose of checking your start homeward, for, so far as I am concerned, you may depart wherever you wish. But for the purpose of making you understand when you take yourselves off, what kind of men you have been to us who have conferred such benefits upon you. In the first place, as is reasonable, I shall begin my speech from my father Philip. For he found you vagabonds and destitute of means, most of you clad in hides, feeding a few sheep up the mountain sides, for the protection of which you had to fight with small success against Illyrians, Triballians, and the border Thracians.

      Instead of the hides he gave you cloaks to wear, and from the mountains he led you down into the plains, and made you capable of fighting the neighboring barbarians, so that you were no longer compelled to preserve yourselves by trusting rather to the inaccessible strongholds than to your own valor. He made you colonists of cities, which he adorned with useful laws and customs; and from being slaves and subjects, he made you rulers over those very barbarians by whom you yourselves, as well as your property, were previously liable to be carried off or ravaged.

      He also added the greater part of Thrace to Macedonia, and by seizing the most conveniently situated places on the sea-coast, he spread abundance over the land from commerce, and made the working of the mines a secure employment. He made you rulers over the Thessalians, of whom you had formerly been in mortal fear; and by humbling the nation of the Phocians, he rendered the avenue into Greece broad and easy for you, instead of being narrow and difficult.

      The Athenians and Thebans, who were always lying in wait to attack Macedonia, he humbled to such a degree, I also then rendering him my personal aid in the campaign, that instead of paying tribute to the former and being vassals to the latter, those states in their turn procure security to themselves by our assistance. He penetrated into the Peloponnese, and after regulating its affairs, was publicly declared commander-in-chief of all the rest of Greece in the expedition against the Persian, adding this glory not more to himself than to the commonwealth of the Macedonians.

      These were the advantages which accrued to you from my father Philip; great indeed if looked at by themselves, but small if compared with those you have obtained from me. For though I inherited from my father only a few gold and silver goblets, and there were not even sixty talents in the treasury, and though I found myself charged with a debt of 500 talents owing by Philip, and I was obliged myself to borrow 800 talents in addition to these, I started from the country which could not decently support you, and forthwith laid open to you the passage of the Hellespont, though at that time the Persians held the sovereignty of the sea.

      Having overpowered the satraps of Darius with my cavalry, I added to your empire the whole of Ionia, the whole of Aeolis, both Phrygias and Lydia, and I took Miletus by siege. All the other places I gained by voluntary surrender, and I granted you the privilege of appropriating the wealth found in them. The riches of Egypt and Cyrene, which I acquired without fighting a

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