Speeches


Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Make Good Art
The Gettysburg Address
Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
I Have a Dream
If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
We Should All Be Feminists
Speeches That Changed the World
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham LincolnI Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.What to the Slave is the Fourth of July by Frederick DouglassGive Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick  HenryMalcolm X by Malcolm X
Great Speeches in History
31 books — 8 voters
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics by BeatlesWhole Grains by Alejandro JodorowskyGreat Quotations that Shaped the Western World by Carl H. MiddletonOscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom by Oscar WildeTwang! by Raymond Obstfeld
Quotatations And Who Said What
50 books — 3 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln by David Herbert DonaldManhunt by James L. SwansonA. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr.Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
Best Books on Abraham Lincoln
121 books — 80 voters
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. NashJamestown by Joyce CrawfordThe Declaration of Independence and the United States Constit... by Founding FathersThe Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonThe Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
American Founding Texts (nonfiction)
54 books — 14 voters

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln by David Herbert DonaldManhunt by James L. SwansonLincoln by Gore VidalAbraham Lincoln by Seth Grahame-Smith
Best Books About Abraham Lincoln
115 books — 127 voters
Breaking the Chain by Stacie  WebbHoly Bible by AnonymousTo the Survivors by Robert UttaroEx Libris by Anne FadimanVoices of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Non-Fiction Books To Recommend
8 books — 3 voters

Shannon L. Alder
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Shannon Alder

(Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of Jane Austen's letters): "Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding, was not without its pleasures. Thankfully, there were no dogs and no children. The gowns were middling. There was a good deal of shouting and behavior verging on the profligate, however, people were very free with their compliments and I made several new acquaintances. Miss Lindsay Doran, ...more
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

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