Great Speeches In History / Various Great Speeches In History / Various CD

From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the finest resources of language in the service of the most dramatic issues of their day.

1. Socrates 2. Demosthenes 3. Cicero 4. William of Normandy 5. John Ball 6. Martin Luther 7. Sir Thomas More 8. Queen Elizabeth I 9. Queen Elizabeth I 10. King Charles I 11. Oliver Cromwell 12. William Pitt the Elder 13. Edmund Burke 14. Patrick Henry 15. Samuel Adams 16. William Pitt the Younger 17. Thomas Erskine 18. Georges Danton 19. Charles James Fox 20. Geroge Canning 21. Robert Emmett 22. Lord MacAulay 23. John Bright 24. Abraham Lincoln 25. Emile Zola 26. Emmeline Pankhurst