John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Inaugural Address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

Barbara Charline Jordan

1976 DNC Keynote Address

"Checkers"

"The Ballot or the Bullet"

Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Houston Ministerial Association Speech

"We Shall Overcome"

1984 DNC Keynote Address

1984 DNC Address

Barbara Charline Jordan

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

(General) Douglas MacArthur

Farewell Address to Congress

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

Theodore Roosevelt

"The Man with the Muck-rake"

Robert Francis Kennedy

Remarks on the Assassination of MLK

Farewell Address

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

War Message

(General) Douglas MacArthur

"Duty, Honor, Country"

Richard Milhous Nixon

"The Great Silent Majority"

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

Clarence Seward Darrow

"Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"

Russell H. Conwell

"Acres of Diamonds"

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"A Time for Choosing"

"Every Man a King"

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The Arsenal of Democracy"

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"The Evil Empire"

Ronald Wilson Reagan

First Inaugural Address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Fireside Chat

"The Truman Doctrine"

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Eugene Victor Debs

1918 Statement to the Court

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

"Women's Rights are Human Rights"

Dwight David Eisenhower

"Atoms for Peace"

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

American University Commencement Address

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Dorothy Ann Willis Richards

1988 DNC Keynote Address

Richard Milhous Nixon

Resignation Speech

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"The Fourteen Points"

Margaret Chase Smith

"Declaration of Conscience"

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The Four Freedoms"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A Time to Break Silence"

Mary Church Terrell

"What it Means to be Colored in the...U.S."

William Jennings Bryan

"Against Imperialism"

Margaret Higgins Sanger

"The Morality of Birth Control"

Barbara Pierce Bush

1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Civil Rights Address

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Cuban Missile Crisis Address

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Spiro Theodore Agnew

"Television News Coverage"

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Jesse Louis Jackson

1988 DNC Address

Mary Fisher

"A Whisper of AIDS"

George Catlett Marshall

"The Marshall Plan"

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Edward Moore Kennedy

"Truth and Tolerance in America"

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Struggle for Human Rights"

Geraldine Anne Ferraro

Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech

Robert Marion La Follette

"Free Speech in Wartime"

Ronald Wilson Reagan

40th Anniversary of D-Day Address

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Mario Matthew Cuomo

Edward Moore Kennedy

"Chappaquiddick"

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John Llewellyn Lewis

"The Rights of Labor"

Barry Morris Goldwater

Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address

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Stokely Carmichael

"Black Power"

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey

1948 DNC Address

Emma Goldman

Address to the Jury

Carrie Chapman Catt

"The Crisis"

Newton Norman Minow

"Television and the Public Interest"

Edward Moore Kennedy

Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy

Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee

League of Nations Final Address

Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig

Farewell to Baseball Address

Richard Milhous Nixon

Cambodian Incursion Address

Carrie Chapman Catt

Address to the U.S. Congress

Edward Moore Kennedy

1980 DNC Address

Lyndon Baines Johnson

On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Commonwealth Club Address

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address

Mario Savio

"Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History"

Elizabeth Glaser

1992 DNC Address

Eugene Victor Debs

"The Issue"

Crystal Eastman

"Now We Can Begin"

Huey Pierce Long

Gerald Rudolph Ford

Address on Taking the Oath of Office

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Cesar Estrada Chavez

Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Statement at the Smith Act Trial

Jimmy Earl Carter

"A Crisis of Confidence"

Malcolm X

"Message to the Grassroots"

William Jefferson Clinton

Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address

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Gerald Rudolph Ford

National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"For the League of Nations"

Lyndon Baines Johnson

"Let Us Continue"

Joseph N. Welch

"Have You No Sense of Decency"

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

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