Great American speeches

Liberty or death / Patrick Henry

In favor of the Federal Constitution / James Madison

First Inaugural Address ; Farewell Address / George Washington

Second Inaugural Address / Thomas Jefferson

The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antislavery convention address / Angelina Grimké

Inaugural address / James K. Polk

The compromise of 1850 / Henry Clay

Slavery in the Western Territories / Daniel Webster

On women's rights / Soujourner Truth

Independence Day address / Frederick Douglass

Temperance and women's rights / Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Oration / Chief Seattle

A disappointed woman / Lucy Stone

Seventh Lincoln-Douglas debate / Abraham Lincoln

Speech before the Court / John Brown

First Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln.

Inaugural Address as President of the Confederate States of America / Jefferson Davis

Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln

The American press / Mark Twain

The two revelations / Henry Ward Beecher

The modern museum and the teaching of art / John LaFarge

Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington

The cross of gold speech / William Jennings Bryan

The art and craft of the machine: democracy and new forms in architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright

Dealing with the big corporations ; Preservation of the forests / Theodore Roosevelt

Arctic exploration / Robert E. Peary

War message ; The fourteen points / Woodrow Wilson

Should a Labor Party be formed? / Samuel Gompers

Mercy for Leopold and Loeb / Clarence Darrow.

First Inaugural Address ; The Four Freedoms ; Pearl Harbor Address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Announcement of the dropping of the atomic bomb / Harry S. Truman

The Marshall Plan / George Marshall

The menace of mass destruction / Albert Einstein

In support of civil rights / Hubert Humphrey

On behalf of a declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith

The recall of General Douglas MacArthur / Harry S. Truman

American policy in the Pacific / Douglas MacArthur

Presidential nomination acceptance speech / Adlai Stevenson

The Korean Armistice / Dwight D. Eisenhower

Labor Day message / George Meany

Atoms for peace / Dwight D. Eisenhower

Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy

Television and the public interest / Newton N. Minnow

The Berlin Crisis / John F. Kennedy.

The flight of Friendship 7 and the space program / John Glenn, Jr.

The March on Washington address / Martin Luther King, Jr.

An indefensible war / Eugene McMarthy

Leaving the Presidency / Lyndon B. Johnson

The legal profession and service to society / Ralph Nader

A new kind of southern stragegy / Bella Abzug

Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee / Henry Kissinger

The planetary crisis and the challenge to scientists / Margaret Mead

On the impeachment of the President / Barbara Jordan

Resignation speech / Richard M. Nixon

First Inaugural Address / Ronald Reagan

A case for the Democrats: a tale of two cities / Mario Cuomo

Democractic Convention Speech / Jesse Jackson.