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An Introductory Address | |
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Memorials and Patriotic Speeches | |
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Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons | |
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Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee | |
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Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness | |
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Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument | |
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Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day | |
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Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg | |
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Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July | |
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President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts | |
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Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists | |
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Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty | |
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Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Group's Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel | |
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Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism | |
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General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country | |
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War and Revolution Speeches | |
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Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights | |
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Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada | |
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Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution | |
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An Indian Chief Pledges Help | |
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General Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection | |
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Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions | |
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Revolutionist Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish | |
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Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against France's Enemies | |
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Garibaldi Prepares Italy's Guerrillas for Battle | |
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Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate | |
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Chief Joseph Surrenders | |
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President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress | |
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Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship | |
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Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia | |
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Hitler Declares Germany's Intentions | |
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Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task | |
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Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitler's Troops | |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan | |
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Senator Eugene McCarthy Crystallizes Dissent by Denouncing the War in Vietnam | |
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands | |
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Tributes and Eulogies | |
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Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar | |
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Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette | |
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Henry Lee Remembers George Washington | |
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Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams | |
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Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns | |
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Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man | |
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Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll Speaks at His Brother's Grave | |
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James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield | |
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Jane Addams Praises George Washington | |
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Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln | |
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Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson | |
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George Bernard Shaw Salutes His Friend Albert Einstein | |
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India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Delivers the Eulogy for Gandhi | |
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John F. Kennedy, in Praise of Robert Frost, Celebrates the Arts in America | |
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Senator Robert F. Kennedy Speaks after the Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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Electronic Journalist Eric Sevareid Remembers Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun | |
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President Richard M. Nixon Defines "Politician" in Eulogizing Senator Everett Dirksen | |
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President Jimmy Carter Salutes His Good Friend Hubert H. Humphrey | |
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Senator Daniel P. Moynihan Spoofs Abstractionist Art at a Dedication Ceremony | |
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Secretary Jack Kemp, Saluting Winston Churchill, Applies the Munich Analogy to Kuwait | |
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President Boris Yeltsin of Russia Eulogizes Victims of Communism's Final Power Play | |
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Debates and Argumentation | |
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Cicero Rails against Catiline and His Conspiracies | |
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A Youthful William Pitt the Elder Debates the Merits of Age | |
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William Pitt the Younger and Charles Fox Disagree on Napoleon's Offers of Peace | |
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Senator Daniel Webster Backs the Union in His Reply to Senator Hayne | |
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Senator John C. Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism of President Andrew Jackson | |
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Abolitionist Charles Sumner Excoriates Two Senate Colleagues on the Issue of "Bloody Kansas" | |
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Senator Stephen Douglas Differs with Lincoln on the "Popular Sovereignty" Decision on Slavery | |
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John Cabell Breckinridge Disputes Colonel E. D. Baker's Charge of Treason | |
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Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations | |
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Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Appeals to the League of Nations to Stop Aggression | |
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Candidates Nixon and Kennedy Meet in the First Televised Presidential Debate | |
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Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen Clash on Qualifications for the Presidency | |
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Trials | |
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Job Pleads the Record of a Good Life against God's Inexplicable Punishment | |
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Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms | |
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Sir Thomas More Defends Himself against Charges of Treason | |
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Robert Emmet Demands That Posterity Be the Judge of His Irish Patriotism | |
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Novelist Emile Zola Turns His Libel Defense into an Appeal to Free Falsely Convicted Dreyfus | |
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Antiwar Dissident Eugene V. Debs Addresses the Court before Sentencing | |
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Gandhi Defends His Beliefs | |
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Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers a Supporter of Capital Punishment | |
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Soviet Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky Defies His Judges before Sentencing | |
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Gallows and Farewell Speeches | |
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Socrates, Condemned to Death, Addresses His Judges | |
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Charles I and, Later, His Regicide Speak from the Scaffold | |
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Rebel Richard Rumbold, on the Gallows, Attacks Booted and Spurred Privilege | |
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Revolutionist Robespierre Delivers His Final Speech | |
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President George Washington Delivers His Farewell | |
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John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about His Death Sentence | |
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King Edward VIII Abdicates His Throne | |
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Yankee Great Lou Gehrig Bids Farewell to Baseball | |
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General Douglas MacArthur Moves Congress with "Old Soldiers Never Die" | |
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower Takes His Leave with a Surprising Theme | |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson Halts the Bombing in Vietnam and Drops His Own Political Bomb | |
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Speaker of the House James Wright Resigns as "Propitiation" for Ill Will | |
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Sermons | |
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Jesus of Nazareth Delivers the Sermon on the Mount | |
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Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds | |
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John Wyclif Gives the Sixth Sunday Gospel after Easter | |
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Religious Scourge Savonarola Demands Repentance from the Citizens of Florence | |
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John Calvin Preaches on Suffering Persecution | |
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Calvinist Jonathan Edwards Promises Hellfire and Damnation to the Sinful | |
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Methodist John Wesley Asserts "Free Grace" to Deny the Implacability of Fate | |
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Clergyman John Witherspoon Couples Religion with Politics | |
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Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion | |
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Bishop James Madison Speaks on Divine Providence toward America | |
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Lincoln, in His Second Inaugural, Seeks to Heal the Spiritual Wounds of War | |
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Preacher Henry Ward Beecher Speaks of Visions | |
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Evangelist Billy Sunday Preaches a Revival Sermon | |
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Bishop Fulton John Sheen Makes a Wartime Plea | |
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Theologian Karl Barth Preaches Deliverance by Faith | |
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Rabbi Louis Finkelstein Delivers a Sermon in the White House | |
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President Ronald Reagan Inveighs against the Sinfulness of Communism | |
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Billy Graham Preaches about Salvation through Jesus | |
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Inspirational Speeches | |
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Chemist Louis Pasteur Praises the Rise of Scientific Education | |
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Theodore Roosevelt Blasts Ignoble Ease and Advocates the Strenuous Life | |
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Mark Twain Reveals Stage Fright | |
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Branch Rickey Discovers the Quality That Makes a Ballplayer Great | |
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Acknowledges a Ninetieth-Birthday Tribute | |
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Sets Forth His Family's Creed | |
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Nobel Laureate William Faulkner Charges Writers with the Duty to Help Humanity Prevail | |
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President John F. Kennedy Assures West Germany of America's Steadfastness | |
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Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Ennobles the Civil Rights Movement at the Lincoln Memorial | |
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Senator Everett Dirksen Extols the Marigold | |
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Lectures and Instructive Speeches | |
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Philosopher-Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Defines the Duties of the American Scholar | |
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Edgar Allan Poe Presents His Theory of Beauty and Poetry | |
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Mark Twain Stuns the Littery World by Spoofing Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes to Their Faces | |
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William Lyon Phelps Praises the Owning of Books | |
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Broadcaster John Hilton Talks about Talking | |
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Calls Up the Image of "the Floo Floo Bird" | |
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson Explains Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union | |
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Senator Henry Jackson Analyzes International Terrorism | |
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Speeches of Social Responsibility | |
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British Statesman William Pitt the Younger Urges Abolition of the Slave Trade | |
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Lord Byron Puts Poetic Passion into His Defense of Labor's Rights | |
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Social Reformer Maria Stewart Advocates Education for Black Women | |
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Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pleads for Women's Rights | |
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Evangelist Sojourner Truth Speaks for Women's Rights | |
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Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery | |
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Chief Seattle Cautions Americans to Deal Justly with His People | |
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Susan B. Anthony Argues for Women's Rights | |
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Governor Huey Long of Louisiana Proposes to End the Depression by Redistributing Wealth | |
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Labor's John L. Lewis Defends His Union's Right to Strike | |
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FDR Reminds the Daughters of the American Revolution about Their Lineage | |
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Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort for Having Taken "the Easy Way" | |
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Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch Offers America's First Plan to Control Nuclear Weapons | |
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Senator Robert Taft Opposes War Crimes Trials as Ex post facto Law | |
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Governor Kissin' Jim Folsom of Alabama Startles the South with a Concern for the Negro | |
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Senator Margaret Chase Smith Issues a "Declaration of Conscience" against Senator Joseph McCarthy | |
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Malcolm X Exhorts Afro-Americans to Confront White Oppression | |
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Holocaust Witness Elie Wiesel Asks President Reagan to Reconsider a Visit to a German Cemetery | |
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Astronomer Carl Sagan Contemplates the Potential Self-destruction of the Earth | |
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Playwright-Dissident Vaclav Havel Assumes the Presidency of Czechoslovakia | |
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Media Speeches | |
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Playwright-Journalist-Diplomat Clare Boothe Luce Criticizes the American Press | |
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FCC's Newton Minow Excoriates Broadcasters for Failing to Serve the Public Interest | |
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Historian Daniel J. Boorstin Examines the Coverage of Dissent | |
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Vice-President Spiro Agnew Castigates the Media | |
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times Discusses Business and the Press | |
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A. M. Rosenthal of the New York Times Defines Freedom of the Press | |
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Television Journalist Ted Koppel Reports on the Newsworthiness of the Ten Commandments | |
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Novelist Norman Mailer Slams Censorship and Literary Cowardice | |
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Radio and Television Journalist Daniel Schorr, at Seventy-five, Makes a Few "Confessions" | |
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Author Salman Rushdie Cries Out from a Life "Trapped inside a Metaphor" | |
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Political Speeches | |
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Demosthenes Attacks His Accuser | |
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John Winthrop Defines the Mission of Government Officials | |
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Edmund Burke Makes a Case for Conciliation with America | |
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Benjamin Franklin Addresses the Federal Convention | |
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Thomas Jefferson Appeals for Unity at His Inauguration | |
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Lord Macaulay Presses the Need for Strong Leadership to Gain Popular Support | |
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William Cobbett Heaps Scorn on Opponents of His Bill to Reduce Child Labor | |
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Senator Henry Clay Calls for the Great Compromise to Avert Civil War | |
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Karl Marx Calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat | |
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Lincoln, in His First Inaugural, Asserts the Necessity of Majority Rule | |
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Representative J. Proctor Knott Uses Satire to Sink a Land Grant Bill | |
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British Conservative Benjamin Disraeli Speaks Up for Tory Principles | |
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Kalakaua, Last King of Hawaii, Assumes the Throne | |
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Prime Minister Gladstone Argues for Toleration and the Rights of Freethinkers in the House of Commons | |
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Democratic Candidate William Jennings Bryan Delivers His "Cross of Gold" Speech | |
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Claude Bowers Conjures the Ghosts of Democrats Past to Keynote a Convention | |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Instills Confidence in a Depression-Racked Nation | |
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Winston Churchill Warns the West of the Soviet "Iron Curtain" | |
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Judge Noah Sweat of Mississippi Shows How to Straddle a Fence with Satiric Flair | |
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Hubert H. Humphrey Divides the Democratic Party on the Urgent Issue of Civil Rights | |
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President Harry Truman Whistle-stops the Nation, Blasting the "Do-Nothing" Congress | |
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Adlai Stevenson Makes the Model of a Concession Speech | |
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Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a "Secret Speech," Tears Down Stalin's Reputation | |
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President John F. Kennedy, in His Inaugural, Takes Up the Torch for a New Generation | |
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President Charles de Gaulle Offers Self-determination to the Algerian People | |
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Barry Goldwater Ignites the Conservative Movement | |
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President Richard M. Nixon Rallies "the Silent Majority" to Support the War in Vietnam | |
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Representative Barbara Jordan Makes the Constitutional Case for the Impeachment of Nixon | |
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President Gerald Ford Takes Office after Nixon's Resignation | |
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Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat Travels to Jerusalem to Address Israel's Knesset | |
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy Exhorts Fellow Democrats to Hold Fast to Liberalism | |
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President Ronald Reagan Foresees the Crisis of Communism | |
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Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick Blasts the "San Francisco Democrats" | |
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Labour's Neil Kinnock Excoriates Mrs. Thatcher's Toryism | |
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Henry Kissinger Warns against the Reemergence of Isolationism | |
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George Bush Accepts the Republican Nomination | |
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President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His Fault | |
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Commencement Speeches | |
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President Woodrow Wilson Calls the Midshipmen to Their Duty | |
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Editor William Allen White Calls the Prewar Generation to Its Duty | |
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Economist Arthur Burns Shares Three Discoveries with Young Israelis | |
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Humorist Art Buchwald Speaks to Law Graduates | |
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Language Maven William Safire Denounces the Telephone as the Subverter of Good English | |
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Financier Felix G. Rohatyn Examines a Fragile Economy | |
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Governor Mario Cuomo Speaks over the Heads of the Graduates to the Parents | |
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Labor's Lane Kirkland Rejects the Labels "Liberal" and "Conservative" | |
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Professor Jacob Neusner Defines the Social Contract between Teacher and Student | |
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Permissions | |
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Index | |