Great Speeches of Our Time (Record no. 121575)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781780877464 |
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| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 808.85 |
| Item number | WIL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Williams, Hywel |
| 9 (RLIN) | 53410 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Great Speeches of Our Time |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Quercus |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 310p |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | UKP |
| Price amount | 8.99 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 1. It is, indeed, hard for the strong to be just to the weak' 16 May 1945 / Eamon de Valera<br/>2. `An iron curtain has descended across the Continent' 5 March 1946 / Winston Churchill<br/>3. `Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos' 5 June 1947 / George Marshall<br/>4. `A new star rises, the star of freedom in the east' 14 August 1947 / Jawaharlal Nehru<br/>5. `This is our native land, it is not as birds of passage that we return to it' 2 October 1947 / David Ben-Gurion<br/>6. `The basic problem confronting the world today ... is the preservation of human freedom' 9 December 1948 / Eleanor Roosevelt<br/>7. `Old soldiers never die, they just fade away' 19 April 1951 / Douglas MacArthur<br/>8. `The cult of the individual brought about rude violation of party democracy' 25 February 1956 / Nikita Khrushchev<br/>9. Contents note continued: `The government resorted to epic weapons for squalid and trivial ends' 5 December 1956 / Aneurin Bevan<br/>10. `Let a hundred flowers blossom. Let a hundred schools of thought contend' 27 February 1957 / Mao Zedong<br/>11. `The wind of change is blowing through this continent' 3 February 1960 / Harold Macmillan<br/>12. `We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier' 15 July 1960 / John F. Kennedy<br/>13. `Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country' 20 January 1961 / John F. Kennedy<br/>14. `Mankind must put an end to war<br/>15. or war will put an end to mankind' 25 September 1961 / John F. Kennedy<br/>16. `There is no independence imaginable for a country that does not have its own nuclear weapon' 15 February 1963 / Charles de Gaulle<br/>17. `I have a dream' 28 August 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr.<br/>18. `The white heat of the technological revolution' 1 October 1963 / Harold Wilson<br/>19. `An ideal for which I am prepared to die' 20 April 1964 / Nelson Mandela<br/>20. Contents note continued: `Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice ... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue' 16 July 1964 / Barry Goldwater<br/>21. `The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of afar deeper malady within the American spirit' 4 April 1967 / Martin Luther King, Jr.<br/>22. `Socialism is an attitude of mind' 10 April 1967 / Julius Nyerere<br/>23. `We are determined that the Palestine question will not be liquidated or forgotten' 26 May 1967 / Gamal Abdel Nasser<br/>24. `We are now ready to deal with the entire Palestine question' 29 May 1967 / Gamal Abdel Nasser<br/>25. `North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that' 3 November 1969 / Richard Nixon<br/>26. `Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never' 9 August 1974 / Richard Nixon<br/>27. `The bringing home of our constitution marks the end of a long winter' 17 April 1982 / Pierre Trudeau<br/>28. `I warn you that you will have pain' 7 June 1983 / Neil Kinnock<br/>29. Contents note continued: `We are democratic socialists. We care all the time' 15 May 1987 / Neil Kinnock<br/>30. `Isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments' 6 June 1984 / Ronald Reagan<br/>31. `For the love of God: Please, make this nation remember how futures are built' 16 July 1984 / Mario Cuomo<br/>32. `Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. In the end, faith will not disappoint' 18 July 1984 / Jesse Jackson<br/>33. `Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present' 8 May 1985 / Richard von Weizsacker<br/>34. `Let Europe be a family of nations ... relishing our national identity no less than our common European endeavour' 20 September 1988 / Margaret Thatcher<br/>35. `Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions' 7 December 1988 / Mikhail Gorbachev<br/>36. `A rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world' 10 May 1994 / Nelson Mandela<br/>37. Contents note continued: `The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine' 7 December 1995 / Seamus Heaney<br/>38. `Socialism or death!' 1 January 1999 / Fidel Castro<br/>39. `By putting our money where our heart is ... we will mould the world into a kinder, more loving shape' 27 November 1999 / Anita Roddick<br/>40. `Our policies only succeed when the realism is as clear as the idealism' 2 October 2001 / Tony Blair<br/>41. `Whatever the country, freedom of thought and expression are universal human rights' 25 April 2006 / Orhan Pamuk<br/>42. `As of today, the time for denial, the time for delay, has at last come to an end' 13 February 2008 / Kevin Rudd<br/>43. `Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward' 6 November 2012 / Barack Obama.<br/> |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | History - Modern - Civilization |
| 9 (RLIN) | 53411 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Call number prefix | 808.85 |
| Call number suffix | WIL |
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