Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: DISTANT ECHOES -- Moses: Instructing His People to March Without Him (circa 1260 BCE) -- Pericles: Reply to Sparta (432 BCE) -- Pericles: At the Funeral of Fallen Sodiers (431 BCE) -- Pericles: Lifting the Morale of Athens (430 BCE) -- Isocrates: On Resisting Persia (380 BCE) -- Hannibal: To His Soldiers (218 BCE) -- Catiline: To His Troops (62 BCE) -- Eleazer ben Yair: Death, Not Slavery (May 73) -- Empress Theodora: Fight, Not Flight (January 18, 532) -- St. Bernard: On the Second Crusade (1146) -- William Shakespeare: Battle of Agincourt (1599) -- Queen Elizabeth I: Supporting Her Troops against the Spanish Armada (July 1588) -- Frederick the Great: Before Invading Silesia (December 11, 1740) -- Frederick the Great: Before the Battle of Leuthen (December 3, 1757) -- Part 2: LIBERTY OR DEATH -- John Hancock: On the Boston Massacre (March 5. 1774) -- Patrick Henry: Liberty or Death (March 23, 1775) -- George Washington: Calming His Rebellious Troops (March 15, 1783) -- Napoleon Bonaparte: Speeches of 1796-1815 -- Before the Italian Campaign (March 1796) -- Proclamation to the Army (May 1796) -- On Entering Milan, May 1796 -- At the Conclusion of the First Italian Campaign (March 1797) -- On the Signing of the Treaty of Camp Formio (October 17, 1797) -- On Embarking for Egypt (June 1798) -- Before the Battle of Marengo (June 14, 1800) -- On Presenting the Colors (December 3, 1804) -- Before the Battle of Austerlitz (December 1, 1805) -- After the Battle of Austerlitz (December 3, 1805) -- Before the Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812) -- Address to the Guard (April 2, 1814) -- Farewell Address to the Old Guard (April 20, 1814) -- On Returning from Exile (March 5, 1815) -- Anniversary Proclamation on the Battles of Marengo and Friedland (June 14, 1815).

Giuseppe Garibaldi: Farewel Address: Fight On! (September 1860) -- Frederick Douglass: Man of Color, To Arms! (March 21, 1863) -- Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863) -- Abraham Lincoln: To the 166th Ohio Regiment (August 22, 1864) -- Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865) -- Part 3: SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY -- Woodrow Wilson: To the U.S. Naval Academy (June 5, 1914) -- Woodrow Wilson: War Message to Congress (April 2, 1917) -- Georges Clemenceau: Defend to the Death (June 4, 1918) -- Marshal Ferdinand Foch: Tribute to Napoleon (May 5, 1921) -- Winston Churchill: Victory at All Costs (May 13, 1940) -- Winston Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender (June 4, 1940) -- Henry Stimson: Asking for Sacrifice (May 6, 1941) -- Harold Ickes: Impoloring Americans to Fight (May 18, 1941) -- Vyacheslav Molotov: Responding to Germany's Invasion (June 22, 1941) -- Josef Stalin: Defend Every Inch (July 3, 1941) -- Winston Churchill: We Can Take It Again (July 14, 1941) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: 9/11 Address (September 11, 1941) -- Winston Churchill: On Refusing to "Give In" (October 29, 1941) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Declaring War on Japan (December 8, 1941) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: On Preparing America for War (December 9, 1941) -- Josef Stalin: Demanding Courage (July 28, 1942) -- General Sir Bernard Montgomery: No Retreat (August 13, 1942) -- General George Patton: Exhorting the Third Army (Spring 1944) -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower: Ordering the Normandy Invasion (June 6, 1944) -- Part 4: BEAR ANY BURDEN -- Harry S. Truman: Calling America to the Cold War (March 12, 1947) -- Menachem Begin: Preparing Israel for an Arab Attack (May 14, 1948) -- John F. Kennedy: What You Can Do for Your Country (January 20, 1961) -- General Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country (May 12, 1962).

John F. Kennedy: Challenging America to Reach the Moon (September 12, 1962) -- John F. Kennedy: Bracing America for the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 22, 1962) -- John F. Kennedy: Ich Bin and Berliner (June 26, 1963) -- Richard Nixon: Asking for Patience on Vietnam (November 3, 1969) -- Nelson Mandela: Unite! Mobilize! Fight On! (June 10, 1980) -- Ronald Reagan: Tear Down This Wall! (June 12, 1987) -- Part 5: 9/11 AND BEYOND -- George W. Bush: Rallying America after 9/11 (September 20, 2001) -- Notes on Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- About the Author.