Main Links

Speech Index

Special Events

Recent Additions

   [Home]

   [SITE SEARCH]

   Speech Bank

   Top 100 Speeches

   Rhetorical Literacy

   Movie Speeches

   Figures in Sound

   Christian Rhetoric

   Rhetoric of 9-11

   News & Info

   For Scholars

   What is Rhetoric?  

   Plato on Rhetoric

   Aristotle on Rhetoric

   Comm Journals

   Comm Associations

   RCA

  Cool Exercises

   Rhetoric  Quiz!

   Rodman & de Ref

   Corax v. Tisias

  Reviews/Traffic

   Features/Awards

   NetRank/Links In

  Audio Players

   Real Player

   Windows Media

   WinAmp

  Legal/Privacy

  © Fair Use Notice

   Privacy Policy 

   E-mail Owner 

Get Speeches  A-F

Get Speeches  G-L

Get Speeches  M-R

Get Speeches  S-Z

James Earl Jones Performs Shakespeare

Delivered 12 May 2009, Washington, D.C.
American Rhetoric YouTube


Speech of the Week

George Washington

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation

"Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be."

"That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the greatest degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us."

"And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions..."

Text of Proclamation

By Michael E. Eidenmuller, Founder, American Rhetoric [Available at Amazon.com]

Eric Holder: Press Conference on 9/11 Suspects Civilian Court Venue [w/ AudioXE]

Eric Holder: Speech Marking African-American History Month [AudioXE Added]

Lt. Gen. Robert Cone: Speech at Ford Hood Memorial Service [w/ Video and AudioXE]

Barack Obama: Memorial Service Speech for the Servicemen and Servicewomen at Fort Hood [w/ Video & AudioXE]

Barack Obama: First Speech to the United Nations General Assembly [w/ AudioXE]

Hubert Humphrey: Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance [Video Excerpt Added]

Brooksley Born: JFK Profile in Courage Acceptance Speech

Henrique Meirelles: Rio 2016 Final Presentation to the IOC

Benjamin Netanyahu: Speech to the United Nations General Assembly

J.C. Watts: Keeping America Competitive in the Global Marketplace

Iraq War Speeches

2/27/09 President's Address at Camp Lejeune on Ending the War in Iraq

10/12/07 General Ricardo Sanchez's Address to Military Reporters and Editors

9/13/07 President's Address to the Nation on Moving Forward in Iraq

9/10/07 General David Petraeus' Opening Statement to Congress on the Status in Iraq

7/12/07 President's Press Conference on Iraq War

1/10/07 President's Address to the Nation on Troop Increase

11/08/06 President's Remarks on Rumsfeld Resignation and Gates Nomination for Secretary of Defense

9/11/06 President's National Address on Five-Year Anniversary of 9/11

12/18/05 President's National Address in Oval Office

6/28/05 President's National Address at Fort Bragg

2/4/05 L. Paul Bremer: TD Waterhouse Conference Keynote Address

2/02/05 President's 2005 State of the Union Address

1/30/05 President's Address Following Democratic Election in Iraq

10/4/04 Donald Rumsfeld's Address to the Council on Foreign Relations

5/24/04 President's Address at the U.S. War College

4/13/04 President's Prime Time News Conference on Iraq War

4/8/04 Condoleezza Rice: 9/11 Commission Opening Statement

1/20/04 President's 2004 State of the Union Address

12/14/03 President Announces Capture of Saddam Hussein

7/18/03 Tony Blair Accepts Congressional Gold Medal Award

5/01/03 President Announces End of Combat Ops in Iraq

4/13/04 President's Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War

4/10/03 President and UK Prime Minister Addresses to the Peoples of Iraq

4/03/03 President's Address at Camp Lejeune

3/19/03 Senator Robert Byrd: The Arrogance of Power

3/19/03 President's Address to the Nation: Initial Ops in Iraq

3/17/03 President's Ultimatum to Saddam

2/05/03 Colin Powell's Address to the UN Security Council

1/28/03 President's State of the Union Address

8/26/02 Vice President Cheney's Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention

2/02/02 Paul Wolfowitz's Address at the 38th Verkunde Conference

1/29/02 President's State of the Union Address

Barack Obama  Hillary Clinton  William Jefferson Clinton

Al Gore  Joe Biden  Michelle Obama  Ted Kennedy

John McCain  Sarah Palin  Mike Huckabee  Fred Thompson 

Rudy Giuliani  George W. Bush  Joe Lieberman

Barack Obama  Alexandra Kerry  Al Gore   Al Sharpton

Jimmy Carter   Bill Clinton  Ilana Wexler  John Kerry 

Vanessa Kerry  BLOOPERS!

   Arnold Schwarzenegger   Dick Cheney   George W. Bush

John McCain   Laura Bush   Rudi Giuliani   Zell Miller

 

compassionintl.gif (13360 bytes)

Top 100 Speeches

Movie Speeches

American Rhetoric Home

© Copyright 2001-2009.
American Rhetoric
by
Michael E. Eidenmuller
All rights reserved.