Decade

1900-1910

Russell H. Conwell

"Acres of Diamonds"

William Jennings Bryan

"Against Imperialism"

Theodore Roosevelt

"The Man with the Muck-rake"

Mary Church Terrell

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

Eugene Victor Debs

"The Issue"

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address

Anna Howard Shaw

"The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"

Carrie Chapman Catt

"The Crisis"

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

War Message

Emma Goldman

Address to the Jury

Robert Marion La Follette

"Free Speech in Wartime"

Carrie Chapman Catt

Address to the U.S. Congress

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"The Fourteen Points"

Eugene Victor Debs

1918 Statement to the Court

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"For the League of Nations"

League of Nations Final Address

Crystal Eastman

"Now We Can Begin"

Margaret Higgins Sanger

"The Morality of  Birth Control"

Clarence Seward Darrow

"Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"

"The Children's Era"

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Commonwealth Club Address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Fireside Chat

Huey Pierce Long

"Every Man a King"

Huey Pierce Long

 "Share Our Wealth"

John Llewellyn Lewis

"The Rights of Labor"

Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig

Farewell to Baseball Address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The Arsenal of Democracy"

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The Four Freedoms"

"The Truman Doctrine" 

George Catlett Marshall

"The Marshall Plan"

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey

1948 DNC Address

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Struggle for Human Rights"

Margaret Chase Smith

"Declaration of Conscience"

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

(General) Douglas MacArthur

Farewell Address to Congress

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address

"Checkers"

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Statement at the Smith Act Trial

Dwight David Eisenhower

"Atoms for Peace"

Joseph N. Welch

"Have You No Sense of Decency"

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Houston Ministerial Association Speech

Farewell Address

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Inaugural Address

Newton Norman Minow

"Television and the Public Interest"

(General) Douglas MacArthur

"Duty, Honor, Country"

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

American University Commencement Address

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Civil Rights Address

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Cuban Missile Crisis Address

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

"The Ballot or the Bullet"

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"A Time for Choosing"

Barry Morris Goldwater

Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address

Malcolm X

"Message to the Grassroots"

Lyndon Baines Johnson

"Let Us Continue"

Mario Savio

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

"We Shall Overcome"

Stokely Carmichael

"Black Power"

Cesar Estrada Chavez

Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast

Lyndon Baines Johnson

On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A Time to Break Silence"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

Robert Francis Kennedy

Remarks on the Assassination of MLK

Edward Moore Kennedy

Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy

Edward Moore Kennedy

"Chappaquiddick"

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Richard Milhous Nixon

"The Great Silent Majority" 

Spiro Theodore Agnew

"Television News Coverage"

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Richard Milhous Nixon

Cambodian Incursion Address

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm

Barbara Charline Jordan

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

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Richard Milhous Nixon

Resignation Speech 

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Gerald Rudolph Ford

Address on Taking the Oath of Office

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Gerald Rudolph Ford

National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon

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Barbara Charline Jordan

1976 DNC Keynote Address

Jimmy Earl Carter

"A Crisis of Confidence"

Edward Moore Kennedy

1980 DNC Address

Ronald Wilson Reagan

First Inaugural Address

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"The Evil Empire"

"A Left-Handed Commencement Address"

Edward Moore Kennedy

"Truth and Tolerance in America"

Ronald Wilson Reagan

40th Anniversary of D-Day Address

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1984 DNC Address

1984 DNC Keynote Address

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Geraldine Anne Ferraro

Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech

Mario Matthew Cuomo

"Religious Belief and Public Morality"

Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address

Brandenburg Gate Address

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards

1988 DNC Keynote Address

Jesse Louis Jackson

1988 DNC Address

Barbara Pierce Bush

1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address

Anita Faye Hill

Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee

Elizabeth Glaser

1992 DNC Address

Mary Fisher

"A Whisper of AIDS"

William Jefferson Clinton

Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

Women's Rights Are Human Rights

Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel

"The Perils of Indifference" 

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