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Step into a shelf where ideas are weapons, wit is sharpened to a blade, and private letters open hidden doors into history. Here, revolutionaries, skeptics, statesmen, and artists argue over liberty, faith, society, and the self—through thunderous speeches, intimate correspondence, and essays that still spark debate. It’s a collection alive with conviction, controversy, and the electrifying sense that words can change the world.

by Dallas Lore Sharp

by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

by Guido Gozzano

by Mary Astell

by José Rizal

by William Dean Howells

by Henry David Thoreau

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Arthur Schopenhauer

by William Morris

by Sarah Grimké

by O. V. de L. (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz) Milosz

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Annie Besant

by Benjamin Franklin

by Henry James

by Jonathan Edwards

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Woodrow Wilson

by Virginia Woolf

by Charles Brockden Brown

by Theodore Parker

by Grover Cleveland

by Thomas Quayle

by Dallas Lore Sharp

by John Alexander Martin

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by George Puttenham

by Rabindranath Tagore

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

by Various Authors

by Immanuel Kant

by Philip Sidney

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

by Zitkala-Sa

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Anna J. (Anna Julia) Cooper

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme

by J. H. Erkko

by Adriaan van der Willigen

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Andrew Lang

by Frances Power Cobbe
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by Jane Austen

by Andrew Lang

by Émile Zola

by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

by Giovanni Berchet

by George Ainslie Hight

by Louis Nicolardot

by Various Authors

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele

by Elbert Hubbard

by Thomas Carlyle

by Robert Louis Stevenson

by Frederick Douglass

by Edward Carpenter

by Daniel Moore

by Oscar Wilde

by Henry James

by Various Authors

by Giovanni Pascoli

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Confucius, Faxian, Mencius

by Charles Kingsley

by John Quincy Adams

by Various Authors

by Thomas De Quincey

by Antero de Quental

by Walter Pater

by James Thomas Fields

by Herbert Allen Giles

by Sylvain Maréchal

by Elias Haffter

by Thomas Paine

by King of England James I

by Oscar Wilde

by Ferenc Molnár

by Alphonse de Lamartine

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Daniel Webster

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Gilbert White

by Juan Valera