title: In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century
author: Senator Robert Torricelli
description: Stephen Ambrose Senator Torricelli's selection of great american speeches...makes me...glad that we live in America.<br /><br />Robert Shrum presidential speechwriter <i>In Our Own Words</i> is history at its best, because it is neither filtered nor synthesized but is presented in the words of the speakers themselves<br /><br /><i>Library Journal</i> Uniquely textured....There is no comparable one-volume collection of twentieth-century commentary that evokes such a diversity of viewpoints.<br /><br /><i>New York Post</i> A fine snapshot....All of the great moral and social debates can be found here.<br /><br />Charlie Rose Just amazing....It really is a history of our time.
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  # In the Face of His Constituents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Susan Glaspell
  
  
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  SENATOR HARRISON concluded his argument and sat down. There was no applause,
  but he had expected none. Senator Dorman was already saying "Mr. President?"
  and there was a stir in the crowded galleries, and an anticipatory moving of
  chairs among the Senators. In the press gallery the reporters bunched together
  their scattered papers and inspected their pencil-points with earnestness.
  Dorman was the last speaker of the Senate, and he was on the popular side of
  it. It would be the great speech of the session, and the prospect was cheering
  after a deluge of railroad and insurance bills.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I want to tell you," he began, "why I have worked for this resolution
  recommending the pardon of Alfred Williams. It is one of the great laws of the
  universe that every living thing be given a chance. In the c