| Peter Abelard. |
The Divine Tragedy |
| Samuel Adams. |
On American Independence |
| Aeschines. |
Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown |
| Agricola. |
To His Army in Scotland |
| Alcibiades. |
In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily |
| To the Spartans |
| John Peter Altgeld. |
On Municipal and Governmental Ownership |
| Fisher Ames. |
On the Treaty with Great Britain |
| Susan Brownell Anthony. |
On Woman’s Right to the Suffrage |
| Mark Antony. |
His Oration Over the Dead Body of Cæsar |
| Count Albert Apponyi. |
On the Death of Louis Kossuth |
| Herbert Henry Asquith,
Earl of Oxford and Asquith. |
Trade and the Empire |
| Saint Augustine. |
On the Lord’s Prayer |
|
| Edward D. Baker. |
His Reply to Breckenridge |
| Arthur James, Earl of Balfour. |
On the Benefits of Reading |
| George Bancroft. |
The People in Art, Government, and Religion |
| Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac. |
On the Heroism of the “Vengeur’s” Sailors |
| Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie
Barnave. |
Against Majority Absolutism |
| Benjamin Disraeli,
Earl of Beaconsfield. |
On the Principles of His Party |
| Saint Bede. |
His Sermon on All Saints |
| Henry Ward Beecher. |
His Speech in Liverpool |
| Thomas Hart Benton. |
On the Expunging Resolution |
| Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. |
Why Another Crusade? |
| Augustine Birrell. |
The Distinction of Burke |
| Otto von Bismarck. |
The Canossa Speech |
| Chief of the Sacs Black Hawk. |
Black Hawk to General Street |
| James Gillespie Blaine. |
On the Death of Garfield |
| Richard Parks Bland. |
The Parting of the Ways |
| Jacques Bénigne Bossuet. |
On the Death of the Great Condé |
| Louis Bourdaloue. |
On the Passion of Christ |
| Charles Bradlaugh. |
His Plea at the Bar of the House |
| Joseph Brant. |
Brant to Lord George Germaine |
| John Bright. |
On the English Foreign Policy |
| On the “Trent” Affair |
| Preston Smith Brooks. |
In Defense of His Attack on Sumner |
| Henry Peter, Lord Brougham. |
On Emancipation for the Negro |
| John Brown. |
His Speech to the Court at His Trial |
| William Cullen Bryant. |
His Welcome to Kossuth |
| James, Viscount of Bryce. |
On the Government of Ireland Bill |
| John Bunyan. |
The Heavenly Footman |
| Edmund Burke. |
At the Trial of Warren Hastings |
| On Conciliation with America |
| Principles in Politics |
| Isaac Butt. |
At the Bar of the House of Lords |
|
| Julius Cæsar. |
On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators |
| John Caldwell Calhoun. |
On the Clay Compromise Measures |
| On the Expunging Resolution |
| John Calvin. |
On Suffering Persecution |
| Pierre Joseph Cambon. |
On the Situation in France |
| Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. |
His “The Duma Is Dead: Long Live the Duma,” Speech |
| On the Policy of the Liberal Party |
| George Canning. |
On Granting Aid to Portugal |
| Thomas Carlyle. |
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University |
| Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot. |
Against Setting Up an Emperor |
| Emilio Castelar y Ripoll. |
Plea for a Republic in Spain |
| Catiline. |
An Exhortation to Conspiracy |
| To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle |
| Cato the Censor. |
In Support of the Oppian Law |
| Cato the Younger. |
On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators |
| Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour. |
Rome as the Capital of United Italy |
| Thomas Chalmers. |
When Old Things Pass Away |
| Joseph Chamberlain. |
The True Conception of Empire |
| William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. |
On Affairs in America |
| On the Right to Tax America |
| The Retort to Walpole |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope,
Earl of Chesterfield. |
Against the Gin Bill of the Ministry |
| Rufus Choate. |
His Eulogy of Webster |
| Saint John Chrysostom. |
The Blessings of Death |
| Randolph Henry Spencer,
Lord Churchill. |
His “Trust the People” Speech |
| Cicero. |
In Behalf of Archias the Poet |
| In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law |
| The First Oration Against Catiline |
| The First Oration Against Mark Antony |
| The First Oration Against Verres |
| The Second Oration Against Catiline |
| The Second Oration Against Mark Antony |
| Henry Clay. |
His Attack on Jackson |
| On His Own Compromise Measures |
| The Emancipation of South America |
| Georges Clemenceau. |
In the Debate on Socialism with Jaurès |
| Cleon. |
On the Punishment of the Mytileneans |
| Grover Cleveland. |
His Eulogy of McKinley |
| His First Inaugural Address |
| Richard Cobden. |
The Effects of Protection on Agriculture |
| Roscoe Conkling. |
His Speech Nominating Grant for a Third Term |
| Thomas Corwin. |
On the Mexican War |
| Thomas Cranmer. |
On the Eve of His Execution |
| Charles F. Crisp. |
In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate |
| Oliver Cromwell. |
At the Opening of Parliament Under the Protectorate |
| John Philpot Curran. |
At the Prosecution of Johnson for Libel |
| In Behalf of Rowan and Free Speech |
| George William Curtis. |
His Oration at Concord |
|
| Georges Jacques Danton. |
“Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare” |
| On Liberty of Worship |
| On Taxing the Rich |
| Jefferson Davis. |
On Withdrawing from the Union |
| Michael Davitt. |
On the Irish Land League |
| Demosthenes. |
On the Crown |
| On the State of the Chersonesus |
| The Second Oration Against Philip |
| Camille Desmoulins. |
Better to Die than not Live Free |
| Paul Henri Benjamin,
Baron d’Estournelles de Constant. |
France and the United States |
| Charles Dickens. |
As the Literary Guest of America |
| John Dillon. |
On the Death of Gladstone |
| Dinarchus. |
Against Demosthenes |
| Stephen Arnold Douglas. |
In the First Debate with Lincoln |
|
| Sir John Eliot. |
On the Condition of England |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
On the American Scholar |
| Robert Emmet. |
On Being Found Guilty of Treason |
| Thomas Erskine. |
On Limitations to Freedom of Speech |
| Edward Everett. |
The Issue in the Revolution |
|
| François de Salignac
de la Mothe Fénelon. |
True and False Simplicity |
| Charles James Fox. |
On the British Defeat in America |
| On the Refusal to Negotiate with France |
| The Foreign Policy of Washington |
| The Tyranny of the East India Company |
| Benjamin Franklin. |
Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy |
| His Examination Before the House of Commons |
| On the Federal Constitution |
| Frederick II. |
To His Generals Before Invading Silesia |
| To His Generals Before the Battle of Leuthen |
|
| Léon Gambetta. |
Education for the Peasantry in France |
| James Abram Garfield. |
His Speech Nominating Sherman for President |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi. |
To His Soldiers |
| William Lloyd Garrison. |
On the Death of John Brown |
| Germanicus. |
To His Friends When Dying |
| To His Mutinous Troops |
| William Ewart Gladstone. |
On the Domestic and Foreign Affairs of England |
| The Gracchi. |
Fragments by Caius Gracchus |
| Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus |
| Henry Woodfin Grady. |
The Old South and the New |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant. |
Reasons for Being a Republican |
| Henry Grattan. |
A Plea for Irish Legislative Independence |
| Invective Against Corry |
| Horace Greeley. |
During His Campaign for President |
|
| Alexander Hamilton. |
On the Adoption of the Federal Constitution |
| Hannibal. |
Address to His Soldiers |
| Benjamin Harrison. |
His Inaugural Address |
| John Hay. |
His Tribute to McKinley |
| Robert Young Hayne. |
On the Foote Resolution |
| Patrick Henry. |
Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought? |
| The “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Speech |
| Hermocrates. |
On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders |
| George Frisbie Hoar. |
Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous |
| Homer. |
Achilles’ Reply to the Envoys |
| Victor Marie Hugo. |
In Defense of His Son |
|
| Robert Green Ingersoll. |
At His Brother’s Grave |
| His Speech Nominating Blaine for President |
| Isaeus. |
In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares |
| Isocrates. |
On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia |
|
| Andrew Jackson. |
His Farewell Address |
| His Second Inaugural Address |
| Jean Jaurès. |
In the Debate on Socialism with Clemenceau |
| Thomas Jefferson. |
His First Inaugural Address |
|
| John Knox. |
On the First Temptation of Christ |
| Louis Kossuth. |
On His Welcome to New York |
|
| L.Q.C. Lamar. |
On Sumner and the South |
| Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine. |
To a Deputation of Poles |
| Hugh Latimer. |
The Second Sermon on the Card |
| Sir Wilfrid Laurier. |
On the Death of Queen Victoria |
| Abraham Lincoln. |
His Farewell Words in Springfield |
| In the First Debate with Douglas |
| The First Inaugural Address |
| The “House Divided Against Itself” Speech |
| The Second Inaugural Address |
| The Speech at Gettysburg |
| James Logan. |
Logan to Lord Dunmore |
| Lord Robert Reid Loreburn. |
On the Policy of the English Liberals |
| Martin Luther. |
Before the Diet of Worms |
| Lysias. |
Against Eratosthenes |
|
| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. |
On the Reform Bill |
| Sir John Alexander Macdonald. |
On Canadian Confederation |
| Sir James Mackintosh. |
A Plea for Free Speech |
| William Murray, Earl of Mansfield. |
On the Right to Tax America |
| Jean Paul Marat. |
In His Own Defense |
| Caius Marius. |
On Being Accused of a Low Origin |
| John Marshall. |
On the Federal Constitution |
| Jean Baptiste Massillon. |
Of a Malignant Tongue |
| Giuseppe Mazzini. |
To the Young Men of Italy |
| William McKinley. |
His Last Speech |
| Thomas Francis Meagher. |
On Abhorring the Sword |
| Philip Melanchthon. |
On the Death of Luther |
| Caius Memmius. |
On a Corrupt Oligarchy |
| John Milton. |
Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing |
| Honoré Gabriel Riquetti,
Comte de Mirabeau. |
Necker’s Financial Plan |
| On Being Accused of Treasonable Relations to the Court |
| Dwight Lyman Moody. |
What Think Ye of Christ? |
| John, Viscount Morley. |
His Address at Pittsburg |
|
| Napoleon I. |
After the Return from Elba |
| During the Egyptian Campaign |
| On the Anniversary of Austerlitz |
| Speech to the Directory |
| To His Soldiers at Fontainebleau |
| To the Army in Italy |
| To the Army of Italy Again |
| John Henry Newman. |
Catholicism and the Religions of the World |
| Nicias. |
Against the Sicilian Expedition |
| Eliphalet Nott. |
On the Death of Hamilton |
|
| Daniel O’Connell. |
In Favor of the Repeal of the Union |
| Otho. |
On Becoming Emperor |
| To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide |
| To His Soldiers in Rome |
| James Otis. |
In Opposition to Writs of Assistance |
| Henry John Temple,
3rd Viscount Palmerston. |
On Affairs in Greece |
| Charles Stewart Parnell. |
On the Forged Letter Printed in the London “Times” |
| On the Home Rule Bill |
| Sir Robert Peel. |
For a Repeal of the Corn Laws |
| Pericles. |
In Defense of Himself |
| In Favor of the Peloponnesian War |
| On Those Who Died in the War |
| Charles Phillips. |
An Address to Catholics |
| The Character of Napoleon |
| Wendell Phillips. |
On the Murder of Lovejoy |
| William Pinkney. |
For the Relief of Slaves |
| William Pitt. |
On an Attempt to Force His Resignation |
| On the Refusal to Negotiate with France |
| The War in America Denounced |
| Baron William Conyngham Plunket. |
On Catholic Relief |
| Sargent S. Prentiss. |
On the Death of Lafayette |
| The Choctaw Chief Pushmataha. |
Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun |
| John Pym. |
On Grievances in the Reign of Charles I. |
|
| Sir Walter Raleigh. |
His Last Words on the Scaffold |
| John Randolph. |
On Offensive War with England |
| Red Jacket. |
Red Jacket on the Religion of the White Man and the Red |
| John Edward Redmond. |
Ireland and the Coronation |
| Thomas Brackett Reed. |
In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate |
| Maximilien Marie Isidore
Robespierre. |
Against Granting the King a Trial |
| His Last Speech |
| Theodore Roosevelt. |
His Inaugural Address |
| On American Motherhood |
| Archibald Philip Primrose,
Earl of Rosebery. |
Robert Burns |
| Richard Rumbold. |
Speech on the Scaffold |
|
| Louis de Saint-Just. |
Invective Against Danton |
| Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil,
3d Marquess of Salisbury. |
On the Desertion of Gordon in Egypt |
| Girolamo Savonarola. |
After His Excommunication |
| A Report on His Embassy to the King |
| Carl Schurz. |
A Plea for General Amnesty |
| Scipio Africanus Major. |
To His Mutinous Troops |
| Publius Cornelius Scipio. |
To His Army Before Battle |
| Seneca. |
To Nero When in Disfavor |
| William Henry Seward. |
His “Irrepressible Conflict” Speech |
| Richard Lalor Sheil. |
On the Disabilities of the Jews |
| On the Irish as “Aliens” |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan. |
At the Trial of Warren Hastings |
| John Sherman. |
On “The Crime of 1873” |
| Algernon Sidney. |
Speech on the Scaffold |
| Goldwin Smith. |
The Secret Beyond Science |
| Socrates. |
In His Own Defense |
| On Being Condemned to Death |
| On Being Declared Guilty |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon. |
Men Made Rich by the Poverty of Christ |
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens. |
The South and the Public Domain |
| Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. |
In His Own Defense |
| A. M. Sullivan. |
On the Zulu War |
| Charles Sumner. |
On the Crime Against Kansas |
|
| The Shawnee Chief Tecumseh. |
Tecumseh to General Proctor |
| Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vincennes |
| William Makepeace Thackeray. |
On Charity and Humor |
| Wolf Tone. |
On Being Found Guilty |
| Robert Toombs. |
On Resigning from the Senate |
|
| Sir Henry Vane. |
Against Richard Cromwell |
| At His Trial for High Treason |
| Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud. |
On the Situation in France |
|
| Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. |
On His Proposed Removal from Office |
| George Washington. |
His Farewell Address |
| His First Inaugural Address |
| On His Appointment as Commander-in-Chief |
| Daniel Webster. |
In Reply to Hayne |
| On the Clay Compromise |
| The First Bunker Hill Monument Oration |
| John Wesley. |
God’s Love to Fallen Man |
| George Whitefield. |
On the Method of Grace |
| William Wilberforce. |
On the Horrors of the Slave Trade |
| John Wilkes. |
Conquest of America Impossible |
| On Coercive Measures in America |
| Frances Elizabeth Willard. |
Work Done for Humanity |
| The Cayuga Chief Peter Wilson. |
Peter Wilson on the Empire State |
| James Wolfe. |
To His Army Before Quebec |
| John Wyclif. |
Rules for Decent Living |
|
| William Lowndes Yancey. |
His Speech of Protest in the Charleston Convention |
|
| Huldreich Zwingli. |
On Mercenary Soldiers |
