Speeches in History
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Abraham
Lincoln - Second Inaugural Address (1865) |
Abraham
Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address (1863) |
Al
Gore - Concedes the 2000 Election (2000) |
Bill
Clinton - "I Am Profoundly Sorry" (1998) |
Bill
Clinton - "I Have Sinned" (1998) |
Cardinal
Clemens von Galen - Against Nazi Euthanasia (1941) |
Chief
Joseph of the Nez Perce - On Surrender to US Army (1877) |
Daniel
O'Connell - Justice for Ireland (1836) |
Dwight
D. Eisenhower - On the Military-Industrial Complex
(1961) |
Edmund
Burke - On the Death of Marie Antoinette (1793) |
Edouard
Daladier - Nazis' Aim is Slavery (1940) |
Edward
M. Kennedy - "The Cause Endures" (1980) |
Edward
M. Kennedy - Tribute to John F. Kennedy Jr. (1999) |
Edward
VIII - Abdicates the throne of England (1936) |
Elie
Wiesel - The Perils of Indifference (1999) |
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton - The Destructive Male (1868) |
Elizabeth
I of England - Against the Spanish Armada (1588) |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt - D-Day Prayer (1944) |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address (1933) |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt - For a Declaration of War (1941) |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt - Third Inaugural Address (1941) |
Frederick
Douglass - The Hypocrisy of American Slavery (1852) |
George
Bush - Announcing War Against Iraq (1991) |
George
C. Marshall - The Marshall Plan (1947) |
George
Graham Vest - Tribute to Dogs (c1855) |
George
W. Bush - After September 11th (2001) |
George
Washington - Prevents the Revolt of his Officers (1783) |
Gerald
R. Ford - "A War That is Finished" (1975) |
Gerald
R. Ford - On Taking Office (1974) |
Gerald
R. Ford - Pardoning Richard Nixon (1974) |
Gerhard
Schröder - "I Express My Shame" (2005) |
Giuseppe
Garibaldi - Encourages His Soldiers (1860) |
Harold
Ickes - What is an American? (1941) |
Jimmy
Carter - "A Crisis of Confidence" (1979) |
Jimmy
Carter - Tribute to Hubert Humphrey (1977) |
John
F. Kennedy - "Ich bin ein Berliner" (1963) |
John
F. Kennedy - "We choose to go to the Moon" (1962) |
John
F. Kennedy - Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) |
John
F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address (1961) |
Lou
Gehrig - Farewell to Yankee Fans (1939) |
Lyndon
B. Johnson - Decides Not to Seek Re-election (1968) |
Lyndon
B. Johnson - We Shall Overcome (1965) |
Maximilien
Robespierre - Festival of the Supreme Being (1794) |
Napoleon
Bonaparte - Farewell to the Old Guard (1814) |
Nelson
Mandela - "I am Prepared to Die" (1964) |
Neville
Chamberlain - On the Nazi Invasion of Poland (1939) |
Patrick
Henry - Liberty or Death (1775) |
Pope
Benedict XVI - "In This Place of Horror" (2006) |
Pope
John Paul II - At Israel's Holocaust Memorial (2000) |
Richard
Gephardt - "Life Imitates Farce" (1998) |
Richard
M. Nixon - "Checkers" (1952) |
Richard
M. Nixon - Resigning the Presidency (1974) |
Richard
M. Nixon - White House Farewell (1974) |
Robert
F. Kennedy - On the Death of Martin Luther King (1968) |
Ronald
Reagan - "Tear Down this Wall" (1987) |
Ronald
Reagan - Address to British Parliament (1982) |
Ronald
Reagan - On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day (1984) |
Ronald
Reagan - On the Challenger Disaster (1986) |
St.
Francis of Assisi - Sermon to the Birds (1220) |
Susan
B. Anthony - On Women's Right to Vote (1873) |
Tony
Blair - To the Irish Parliament (1998) |
Vyacheslav
Molotov - On the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union
(1941) |
William
Faulkner - On Accepting the Nobel Prize (1950) |
William
Lloyd Garrison - On the Death of John Brown (1859) |
William
Lyon Phelps - The Pleasure of Books (1933) |
Winston
Churchill - "Iron Curtain" (1946) |
Winston
Churchill - Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat (1940) |
Winston
Churchill - Their Finest Hour (1940) |
Woodrow
Wilson - The Fourteen Points (1918) |