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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 Gustav Karpeles

by Thomas Burke

by Georg Brandes

by Various Authors

by Senator Cassiodorus

by Ludwig Speidel

by Various Authors

by José Ingenieros

by Various Authors

by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie

by Various Authors

by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby

by Elizabeth Bisland

by Emperor of Rome Julian

by Xie Liu

by Georg Brandes

by Frédéric Bastiat

by Francis Hackett

by Noah Webster

by Michelangelo Buonarroti

by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist, Walt Whitman

by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Robert Benchley

by Robert Green Ingersoll

by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

by Various Authors

by Frances Theresa Russell

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

by Various Authors

by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

by William Dean Howells

by Michel de Montaigne

by William Dean Howells

by Michel de Montaigne

by Willard Huntington Wright

by Hector Berlioz

by Robert Baldwin Ross

by Various Authors

by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

by Mr. (John) Oldmixon, Arthur Maynwaring

by Angela M. (Angela Mary) Keyes

by Garcilaso de la Vega

by John Welch, John Knox, Hugh Latimer

by Young Ewing Allison

by John Chilton Scammell

by Sir Henry Irving

by Miguel Cané

by American Anti-Slavery Society

by John Churton Collins

by William J. (William Joseph) Long

by Charles Lever

by Armando Palacio Valdés

by Bill Nye

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Charles Sumner

by John Weiss

by Various Authors

by Emile Hennequin

by Philip H. (Philip Henry) Wicksteed

by A. G. (Arthur Gay) Payne

by John Wesley

by Various Authors

by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

by Walter Pater

by Octavia Hill

by Charles Kingsley

by La Salle Corbell Pickett

by Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

by Arnold Bennett

by Georgina Pell Curtis

by H. V. Hart-Davis

by Bill Nye

by Charles Sumner

by Various Authors

by Sir William Osler

by Vladimir Il'ich Lenin

by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Michel de Montaigne

by Lord Henry Home Kames

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by José de Almada Negreiros

by Robert Southey