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Monday, August 26, 2013

Great American Speeches: The 20th Century's "Top Hundred"

 

RankSpeakerTitle/Text/MultiMediaAudioTranscript
1Martin Luther King, Jr."I Have A Dream"mp3
2John Fitzgerald KennedyInaugural Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
3Franklin Delano RooseveltFirst Inaugural Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
4Franklin Delano RooseveltPearl Harbor Address to the Nationmp3PDF  FLASH
5Barbara Charline Jordan1976 DNC Keynote Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
6Richard Milhous Nixon"Checkers"mp3PDF  FLASH
7Malcolm X"The Ballot or the Bullet"mp3.1 mp3.2
8Ronald Wilson ReaganShuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
9John Fitzgerald KennedyHouston Ministerial Association Speechmp3PDF  FLASH
10Lyndon Baines Johnson"We Shall Overcome"mp3PDF  FLASH
11Mario Matthew Cuomo1984 DNC Keynote Addressmp3
12Jesse Louis Jackson1984 DNC Addressmp3
13Barbara Charline JordanStatement on the Articles of Impeachmentmp3PDF  FLASH
14(General) Douglas MacArthurFarewell Address to Congressmp3PDF  FLASH
15Martin Luther King, Jr."I've Been to the Mountaintop"Off-Site mp3
16
Theodore Roosevelt
"The Man with the Muck-rake"PDF  FLASH
17
Robert Francis Kennedy
Remarks on the Assassination of MLKmp3PDF  FLASH
18Dwight David EisenhowerFarewell Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
19Thomas Woodrow WilsonWar MessagePDF  FLASH
20(General) Douglas MacArthur"Duty, Honor, Country"mp3PDF  FLASH
21Richard Milhous Nixon"The Great Silent Majority"mp3PDF  FLASH
22John Fitzgerald Kennedy"Ich bin ein Berliner"mp3PDF  FLASH
23Clarence Seward Darrow"Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"PDF  FLASH
24Russell H. Conwell"Acres of Diamonds"mp3-ExcerptPDF  FLASH
25Ronald Wilson Reagan"A Time for Choosing"mp3
26Huey Pierce Long"Every Man a King"PDF  FLASH
27Anna Howard Shaw"The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"PDF  FLASH
28Franklin Delano Roosevelt"The Arsenal of Democracy"mp3PDF  FLASH
29Ronald Wilson Reagan"The Evil Empire"mp3PDF  FLASH
30Ronald Wilson ReaganFirst Inaugural Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
31Franklin Delano RooseveltFirst Fireside Chatmp3PDF  FLASH
32Harry S. Truman"The Truman Doctrine"mp3PDF  FLASH
33William Cuthbert FaulknerNobel Prize Acceptance Speechmp3
34Eugene Victor Debs1918 Statement to the CourtPDF  FLASH
35Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton"Women's Rights are Human Rights"mp3PDF  FLASH
36Dwight David Eisenhower"Atoms for Peace"mp3PDF  FLASH
37John Fitzgerald KennedyAmerican University Commencement Address PDF  FLASH
38Dorothy Ann Willis Richards1988 DNC Keynote Addressmp3
39Richard Milhous NixonResignation Speech PDF  FLASH
40Thomas Woodrow Wilson"The Fourteen Points"PDF  FLASH
41Margaret Chase Smith"Declaration of Conscience"
42Franklin Delano Roosevelt"The Four Freedoms"mp3PDF  FLASH
43Martin Luther King, Jr."A Time to Break Silence"Off-Site mp3
44Mary Church Terrell"What it Means to be Colored in the...U.S."PDF  FLASH
45William Jennings Bryan"Against Imperialism"mp3-ExcerptPDF  FLASH
46Margaret Higgins Sanger"The Morality of Birth Control"
47Barbara Pierce Bush1990 Wellesley College Commencement Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
48John Fitzgerald KennedyCivil Rights Address PDF  FLASH
49John Fitzgerald KennedyCuban Missile Crisis Address PDF  FLASH
50Spiro Theodore Agnew"Television News Coverage"

51Jesse Louis Jackson1988 DNC Addressmp3.1 mp3.2
52Mary Fisher"A Whisper of AIDS"mp3PDF  FLASH
53Lyndon Baines Johnson"The Great Society"mp3PDF  FLASH
54George Catlett Marshall"The Marshall Plan" PDF  FLASH
55Edward Moore Kennedy"Truth and Tolerance in America"mp3PDF  FLASH
56Adlai Ewing StevensonPresidential Nomination Acceptance Addressmp3
57Anna Eleanor Roosevelt"The Struggle for Human Rights"PDF  FLASH
58Geraldine Anne FerraroVice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speechmp3PDF  FLASH
59Robert Marion La Follette"Free Speech in Wartime"PDF  FLASH
60Ronald Wilson Reagan40th Anniversary of D-Day Address PDF  FLASH
61Mario Matthew Cuomo"Religious Belief and Public Morality"Off-Site mp3
62Edward Moore Kennedy"Chappaquiddick" PDF  FLASH
63John Llewellyn Lewis"The Rights of Labor"PDF  FLASH
64Barry Morris GoldwaterPresidential Nomination Acceptance Address PDF  FLASH
65Stokely Carmichael"Black Power"
66Hubert Horatio Humphrey1948 DNC AddressOff-site AudioPDF  FLASH
67Emma GoldmanAddress to the JuryPDF  FLASH
68Carrie Chapman Catt"The Crisis"PDF  FLASH
69Newton Norman Minow"Television and the Public Interest"mp3PDF  FLASH
70Edward Moore KennedyEulogy for Robert Francis Kennedymp3PDF  FLASH
71Anita Faye HillStatement to the Senate Judiciary Committeemp3PDF  FLASH
72Thomas Woodrow WilsonLeague of Nations Final AddressPDF  FLASH
73Henry Louis ("Lou") GehrigFarewell to Baseball Address
74Richard Milhous NixonCambodian Incursion Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
75Carrie Chapman CattAddress to the U.S. CongressPDF  FLASH
76Edward Moore Kennedy1980 DNC Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
77Lyndon Baines JohnsonOn Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Electionmp3
78Franklin Delano RooseveltCommonwealth Club AddressPDF  FLASH
79Thomas Woodrow WilsonFirst Inaugural AddressPDF  FLASH
80Mario Savio"Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History"mp3
81Elizabeth Glaser1992 DNC Addressmp3
82Eugene Victor Debs"The Issue"
83Margaret Higgins Sanger"Children's Era"
84Ursula Kroeber Le Guin"A Left-Handed Commencement Address"PDF  FLASH
85Crystal Eastman"Now We Can Begin"
86Huey Pierce Long "Share Our Wealth"PDF  FLASH
87Gerald Rudolph FordAddress on Taking the Oath of Office PDF  FLASH
88Cesar Estrada ChavezSpeech on Ending His 25 Day Fast
89Elizabeth Gurley FlynnStatement at the Smith Act TrialPDF  FLASH
90Jimmy Earl Carter"A Crisis of Confidence"mp3PDF  FLASH
91Malcolm X"Message to the Grassroots"Off-Site.mp3
92William Jefferson ClintonOklahoma Bombing Memorial Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
93Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm"For the Equal Rights Amendment"PDF  FLASH
94Ronald Wilson ReaganBrandenburg Gate Addressmp3PDF  FLASH
95Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel"The Perils of Indifference" PDF  FLASH
96Gerald Rudolph FordNational Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon PDF  FLASH
97Thomas Woodrow Wilson"For the League of Nations"PDF  FLASH
98Lyndon Baines Johnson"Let Us Continue"mp3PDF  FLASH
99Joseph N. Welch"Have You No Sense of Decency"mp3
100Anna Eleanor RooseveltAdopting the Declaration of Human Rightsmp3PDF  FLASH

Audio Speeches #12, #14, #24, #28, #31, #32, #42, #58, #60, #62, #74, #76, courtesy of  Vincent Voice Library


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