Top 20 | By Date | By Name

Jesus of Nazareth
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Mount Zion
Sermon on the Mount
Mingo Chief Logan
1774
Point Pleasant Ohio Territory
Logan's Lament
Patrick Henry
March 23, 1775
at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Lenape Chief Buckongahelas
1781
Gnadenhutten, OH
Address to Christian Native Americans at Gnadenhutten
George Washington
October 3, 1789
New York
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
Chief Red Jacket
1805
Buffalo Grove, New York
Address to White Missionaries and Iroquois Six Nations
Creek Chief Red Eagle
1814
at Fort Jackson, in what is now Alabama
Address to General Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
February 27, 1860
New York, NY
Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
March 4, 1865
Second Inaugural Address
Robert E. Lee
April 10, 1865
Farewell to The Army of Northern Virginia
William Jennings Bryan
July 8, 1896
and later reenacted (below) by Bryan for Gennet Records
Democratic National Convention Address
William Jennings Bryan
August 8, 1900
Indianapolis, IN
Imperialism
Russell Conwell
1900
Acres of Diamonds
Mark Twain
January 22, 1906
New York
Taxes and Morals
Theodore Roosevelt
April 14, 1906
The Man with the Muck-rake
Mary Church Terrell
October 10, 1906
United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.
What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S.
William Jennings Bryan
1908
Psalm 23
Woodrow Wilson
April 4, 1913
First Inaugural Address
Anna Howard Shaw
June 21, 1915
New York State Referendum, Albany, New York
The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
Woodrow Wilson
April 2, 1917
War Message
Emma Goldman
July 9, 1917
New York
Address to the Jury
Robert M. La Follette
October 6, 1917
Washington, DC
Free Speech in Wartime (Abridged)
Woodrow Wilson
January 8, 1918
The Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson
September 25, 1919
in Pueblo, CO
Final Address in Support of the League of Nations
Margaret Sanger
November 18, 1921
Park Theatre, NY
The Morality of Birth Control
Clarence Darrow
September 10, 1924
A Plea for Mercy
Margaret Sanger
March 30, 1925
New York, NY
The Children's Era
Mohandas Gandhi
October 17, 1931
London
Address at Kingsley Hall
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
September 23, 1932
San Francisco, CA
Commonwealth Club Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
March 4, 1933
First Inaugural Address
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
March 12, 1933
Washington D.C.
First Fireside Chat
Father Charles Coughlin
November 27, 1933
Roosevelt or Ruin
Huey P. Long
February 23, 1934
Every Man a King
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
August 14, 1935
Washington, D.C.
Speech Upon Signing the Social Security Act
Huey P. Long
November 12, 1935
Share Our Wealth Barbecue Speech
Herbert Morrison
May 6, 1937
NJ
Radio Address on the Hindenburg Disaster
John L. Lewis
September 3, 1937
in Washington D.C.
Labor and the Nation
Lou Gehrig
July 4, 1939
New York
Farewell to Baseball Address
Winston Churchill
May 13, 1940
House of Commons
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill
May 19, 1940
Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
December 29, 1940
The Great Arsenal of Democracy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 6, 1941
The Four Freedoms
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
March 15, 1941
Washington D.C.
On U.S. Involvement in the War in Europe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
December 8, 1941
Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
C.S. Lewis
March 21, 1944
BBC Home Service Radio
BBC Radio Talk: Beyond Personality -- Mere Men
Dwight D. Eisenhower
June 6, 1944
Order of the Day
Harry S. Truman
May 8, 1945
Announces the Surrender of Germany