100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century
Full text, audio, and video database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address, as compiled by Stephen E. Lucas (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Martin J. Medhurst (Baylor University). Find out who made the cut and experience the power of rhetorical eloquence in this provocative list of «who’s who» in American public address.
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| Martin Luther King |
| «I Have A Dream» |
| 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 |
| Richard Milhous Nixon |
| «Checkers» |
| Malcolm X |
| «The Ballot or the Bullet» |
| Ronald Wilson Reagan |
| Shuttle »Challenger» Disaster Address |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Houston Ministerial Association Speech |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| «We Shall Overcome» |
| Mario Matthew Cuomo |
| 1984 DNC Keynote Address |
| Jesse Louis Jackson |
| 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 |
| Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 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» |
| Huey Pierce Long |
| «Every Man a King» |
| Anna Howard Shaw |
| «The Fundamental Principle of a Republic» |
| 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 |
| Harry S. Truman |
| «The Truman Doctrine» |
| William Cuthbert Faulkner |
| 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 |
| Dorothy Ann Willis Richards |
| 1988 DNC Keynote Address |
| Richard Milhous Nixon |
| Resignation Speech |
| 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» |
| William Jennings Bryan |
| «Against Imperialism» |
| Barbara Pierce Bush |
| 1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Civil Rights Address |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Cuban Missile Crisis Address |
| Spiro Theodore Agnew |
| «Television News Coverage» |
| Jesse Louis Jackson |
| 1988 DNC Address |
| Mary Fisher |
| «A Whisper of AIDS» |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| «The Great Society» |
| George Catlett Marshall |
| «The Marshall Plan» |
| 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 |
| Mario Matthew Cuomo |
| «Religious Belief and Public Morality» |
| Edward Moore Kennedy |
| «Chappaquiddick» |
| John Llewellyn Lewis |
| «The Rights of Labor» |
| Barry Morris Goldwater |
| Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address |
| Stokely Carmichael |
| «Black Power» |
| 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 |
| Anita Faye Hill |
| Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee |
| Thomas Woodrow Wilson |
| 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» |
| Margaret Higgins Sanger |
| «Children’s Era» |
| Ursula Kroeber Le Guin |
| «A Left-Handed Commencement Address» |
| Crystal Eastman |
| «Now We Can Begin» |
| Huey Pierce Long |
| «Share Our Wealth» |
| Gerald Rudolph Ford |
| Address on Taking the Oath of Office |
| 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 |
| Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm |
| «For the Equal Rights Amendment» |
| Ronald Wilson Reagan |
| Brandenburg Gate Address |
| Eliezer («Elie») Wiesel |
| «The Perils of Indifference» |
| Gerald Rudolph Ford |
| National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon |
| 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 |
| Robert Francis Kennedy |
| «Day of Affirmation» |
| John Forbes Kerry |
| «Vietnam Veterans Against the War» |