The World's Best Orations, Volume 4


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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel! Do we not all feel the magic of the power, and when occasionally we are permitted to listen to a great orator how completely we lose ourselves and yield in willing submission to the imperious and impetuous flow of his speech!

We have not confined ourselves to any one profession or field of eloquence. The pulpit, the bar, the halls of legislation, and the popular assembly have each and all been called upon for their best contributions. The single test has been, is it oratory? the single question, is there eloquence? The reader and student of every class will therefore find within these pages that which will satisfy his particular taste and desire in the matter of oratory. - Summary by David J. Brewer

Chapters

Dictators in American Politics Part 1 - Henry Clay 21:31 Read by Gloria Loughry
Dictators in American Politics Part 2 - Henry Clay 18:16 Read by Gloria Loughry
On the Expunging Resolutions - Henry Clay 9:15 Read by Wayne Cooke
On the Seminole War - Henry Clay 13:22 Read by KiwiReader24
The Emancipation of South America - Henry Clay 31:50 Read by Gloria Loughry
«The American System» and the Home Market - Henry Clay 33:53 Read by Gloria Loughry
In Favor of a Paternal Policy of Internal Improvements - Henry Clay 11:34 Read by mpinedag
For «Free Trade and Seamen's Rights» - Henry Clay 11:50 Read by mpinedag
The Greek Revolution - Henry Clay 7:56 Read by mpinedag
The Noblest Public Virtue - Henry Clay 5:14 Read by Introducers
Sixty Years of Sectionalism - Henry Clay 29:14 Read by Gloria Loughry
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and «Expansion» - John M. Clayton 18:24 Read by chrishavel
Justice the Supreme Law of Nations - John M. Clayton 3:50 Read by KatDC
Cuba and «Manifest Destiny» - Jeremiah Clemens 16:51 Read by Leon Prescod
Democracies and Subject Colonies - Cleon 9:28 Read by Gloria Loughry
First Inaugural Address - Grover Cleveland 14:45 Read by Gloria Loughry
Federal Power and Local Rights - De Witt Clinton 10:16 Read by Wayne Cooke
Against the Military Spirit - De Witt Clinton 22:00 Read by Stepahol
«Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!» - Howell Cobb 8:42 Read by Gloria Loughry
The Man on the Tower - William Cobbett 13:36 Read by Patrick Wallace
Free Trade with All Nations - Richard Cobden 31:42 Read by KatDC
Small States and Great Achievements - Richard Cobden 6:45 Read by KatDC
Answering William J. Bryan - William Bourke Cockran 18:48 Read by David Niles
Prosecuting Sir Walter Raleigh - Sir Edward Coke 20:24 Read by ChrisH
The Sacredness of Matrimony - John Duke Coleridge 15:14 Read by David Niles
The Confiscation of Rebel Property - Schuyler Colfax 11:12 Read by Gloria Loughry
Nominating General Grant for a Third Term - Roscoe Conkling 15:34 Read by Gloria Loughry
The Stalwart Standpoint - Roscoe Conkling 15:54 Read by Gloria Loughry
Against Senator Sumner - Roscoe Conkling 4:24 Read by Gloria Loughry
Free Speech Necessary for Good Government - Benjamin Constant 14:03 Read by Gloria Loughry
Ultimate America Part 1 - Joseph Cook 17:37 Read by Belinda Mc
Ultimate America Part 2 - Joseph Cook 15:39 Read by Belinda Mc
Answering Patrick Henry - Francis Corbin 25:00 Read by Cbteddy
Against Dismembering Mexico Part 1 - Thomas Corwin 24:41 Read by TriciaG
Against Dismembering Mexico Part 2 - Thomas Corwin 20:50 Read by TriciaG
Eloquence and the Fine Arts - Victor Cousin 25:44 Read by Gloria Loughry
Liberty an Inalienable Right - Victor Cousin 6:56 Read by Gloria Loughry
The Foundations of Law - Victor Cousin 11:06 Read by Gloria Loughry
True Politics - Victor Cousin 9:33 Read by Gloria Loughry
Against the Iron-Clad Oath - Samuel Sullivan Cox 28:40 Read by Cbteddy
The Sermon on the Mount - Samuel Sullivan Cox 7:49 Read by Larry Wilson
Stephen A. Douglas and His Place in History - Samuel Sullivan Cox 10:51 Read by ShrimpPhish
His Speech at the Stake - Thomas Cranmer 14:47 Read by Beeswaxcandle
Against the Fear of Death - Thomas Cranmer 2:58 Read by Beeswaxcandle
Forgiveness of Injuries - Thomas Cranmer 3:55 Read by Larry Wilson
The Issue and Control of Money under the Constitution - William Harris Crawford 11:55 Read by MikeA
At the Unveiling of Garibaldi's Statue - Francesco Crispi 12:25 Read by Gloria Loughry
Socialism and Discontent - Francesco Crispi 6:37 Read by Gloria Loughry
Henry Clay and the Nineteenth-Century Spirit - John Jordan Crittenden 17:18 Read by Christina Roberts
Against Warring on the Weak - John Jordan Crittenden 10:08 Read by Gloria Loughry
A Raccoon in a Bag - David Crockett 8:52 Read by Wayne Cooke
Debating Whether or Not to Become King of England - Oliver Cromwell 22:59 Read by Beeswaxcandle
Against Monopolies - Sir John Culpeper 10:44 Read by Gloria Loughry
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 1 - John Philpot Curran 24:39 Read by Gloria Loughry
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 2 - John Philpot Curran 32:21 Read by Gloria Loughry
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 3 - John Philpot Curran 20:13 Read by Gloria Loughry
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 4 - John Philpot Curran 26:48 Read by Gloria Loughry
In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 5 - John Philpot Curran 22:23 Read by Gloria Loughry
For Peter Finnerty and Free Speech - John Philpot Curran 7:42 Read by Gloria Loughry
The Diversions of a Marquis - John Philpot Curran 11:28 Read by Gloria Loughry
Against Pensions - John Philpot Curran 9:23 Read by Gloria Loughry
England and English Liberties — In the case of Rowan - John Philpot Curran 12:55 Read by Gloria Loughry
The Liberties of the Indolent - John Philpot Curran 7:23 Read by Gloria Loughry
His Farewell to the Irish Parliament - John Philpot Curran 15:09 Read by Gloria Loughry
On Government by Attachment - John Philpot Curran 15:25 Read by Gloria Loughry
Presidential Criticisms of Congress - Benjamin Robbins Curtis 17:24 Read by Gloria Loughry
His Sovereignty Under His Hat - George William Curtis 7:39 Read by Introducers
Wendell Phillips as a History-Maker - George William Curtis 11:20 Read by Introducers
The Primordial Rights of the Universal People - Caleb Cushing 22:34 Read by Adrian Deon
England and America in China - Caleb Cushing 5:09 Read by Honzuki
The Extermination of the Indians - Caleb Cushing 14:05 Read by Honzuki
Unshackled Living - Cyprian 20:04 Read by Bill Mosley
The Infinite Artifices of Nature - Cyril 11:32 Read by Nickyy
«The Pennsylvania Idea» - George M. Dallas 18:10 Read by Leon Prescod
The Secret of True Greatness - Peter Damiani 4:41 Read by Larry Wilson
New Testament History as Allegory - Peter Damiani 4:15 Read by Larry Wilson
At the Dedication of the Washington Monument - John W. Daniel 19:39 Read by David Niles
Was Jefferson Davis a Traitor? - John W. Daniel 20:41 Read by ARodrigo