This book contains the text of 20 historically significant political speeches. Who said the following in his most memorable speech:This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at the truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. . . . There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Our Speakers:George WashingtonJames MonroeDaniel WebsterFrederick DouglassAbraham LincolnSusan B. AnthonyWilliam Jennings BryanTheodore RooseveltRobert LaFolletteEugene DebsWoodrow WilsonFranklin D. RooseveltHuey LongFranklin D. RooseveltHarold Ickesplus one more
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