Includes bibliographical references and index.

"You can not improve on it. Leave it as it is!" (Speech at the Grand Canyon, 1903) / Theodore Roosevelt -- "The only thing we have to fear...is fear itself" (First inaugural address, 1933) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- "Luckiest man on the face of the earth." (farewell speech, 1939) / Lou Gehrig -- "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat." (address to the House of Commons, 1940) / Winston Churchill -- "The entire world is quietly at peace." (radio address on surrender of Japan, 1945) / Douglas MacArthur -- "The war is won, but peace is not." (Nobel Prize anniversary dinner, 1945) / Albert Einstein -- "The international Magna Carta of all men everywhere." (statement on adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948) / Eleanor Roosevelt -- "Ich bin ein Berliner." (address at the Berlin Wall, 1963) / John F. Kennedy -- "I have a dream" (march on Washington for jobs and freedom, 1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!" (acceptance speech/Republican National Convention, 1964) / Barry Goldwater -- "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not." (RFK as quoted in Tribute, 1968) / Robert F. Kennedy as remembered by Edward M. Kennedy -- "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total." (House of Representatives on the impeachment of President Nixon, 1974) / Barbara Jordan -- "Let there be no more wars" (signing Egypt-Israeli peace treaty, 1979) / Anwar Sadat -- "There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces you don't see" (keynote address/Democratic National Convention, 1984) / Mario Cuomo -- "They...slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." (Nobel acceptance speech, 1989) / Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet -- "Enough of blood and tears. Enough." (signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles -- Oslo II, 1993) / Yitzhak Rabin -- "The unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana" (Eulogy, 1997) / Princess Diana as remembered by Earl Spencer -- Days of infamy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George W. Bush, 1941, 2001.