The Battle of Gettysburg

ADAMS, JOHN 1735-1826
Inaugural Address
The Boston Massacre

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY 1767-1848
Oration at Plymouth Lafayette The
Jubilee of the Constitution

ADAMS, SAMUEL 1722-1803
American Independence

AELRED 1109-1166
A Farewell
A Sermon after Absence
On Manliness

AESCHINES 389-314 B. C.
Against Crowning Demosthenes

AIKEN, FREDERICK A. 1810-1878
Defense of Mrs. Mary E, Surratt

ALBERT THE GREAT (ALBERTUS MAGNUS) 1205-1280
The Meaning of the Crucifixion
The Blessed Dead

ALLEN, ETHAN
A Call to Arms

AMES, FISHER 1758-1808
On the British Treaty

ANSELM, SAINT 1032-1109
The Sea of Life

ARNOLD, THOMAS 1795-1842
The Realities of Life and Death

ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN 1830-1886
Inaugural Address

ATHANASIUS 298-373
The Divinity of Christ

AUGUSTINE, SAINT 354-430
The Lord's Prayer

BACON, FRANCIS 1561-1626
Speech against Dueling

BARBOUR, JAMES 1775-1842
Treaties as Supreme Laws

BARNAVE, ANTOINE PIERRE JOSEPH MARIE 1761-1793
Representative Democracy against Majority Absolutism
Commercial Politics

BARROW, ISAAC 1630-1677
Slander

BASIL THE GREAT 329-379
On a Recreant Nan

BAXTER, RICHARD 1615-1691
Unwillingness to Improve

BAYARD. JAMES A. 1767-1815
The Federal Judiciary
Commerce and Naval Power

BAYARD, THOMAS F. 1828-1898
A Plea for Conciliation in 1876

BEACONSFIELD, LORD 1804-1881
The Assassination of Lincoln
Against Democracy for England
The Meaning of "Conservatism"

BEDE, THE VENERABLE 672-735
The Meeting of Mercy and Justice
A Sermon for Any Day
The Torments of Hell

BEECHER. HENRY WARD 1813-1887
Raising the Flag over Fort Sumter
Effect of the Death of Lincoln

BELHAVEN, LORD 1656-1708
A Plea for the National Life of Scotland

BELL, JOHN 1797-1869
Against Extremists, North and South
Transcontinental Railroads

BENJAMIN, JUDAH P. 1811-1884
Farewell to the Union
Slavery as Established by Law

PREFACE

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture,
architecture please, thrill, inspire; but oratory rules. The orator
dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their
judgment, compels their action. For the time being he is master.
Through the clearness of his logic, the keenness of his wit, the
power of his appeal, or that magnetic something which is felt and
yet cannot be defined, or through all together, he sways his
audience as the stor