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| Introduction | |
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| To Captain John Smith (1609) | |
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| To De la Barre, Governor of Canada (1684) | |
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| In Defense of John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press (1735) | |
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| "We Will Make Men of Them" (1744) | |
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| On the Fourth Anniversary of the Boston Massacre (1774) | |
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| To Lord Dunmore (1774) | |
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| "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" (1775) | |
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| "We Have Ever Been True Friends" (1775) | |
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| To the Continental Congress (1776) | |
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| To the Constitutional Convention (1787) | |
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| To the Massachusetts Convention (1788) | |
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| "Observe Good Faith and Justice towards All Nations" (1796) | |
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| First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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| "We Never Quarrel about Religion" (1805) | |
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| "Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811) | |
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| Welcome to Lafayette (1824) | |
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| Bunker Hill Oration (1825) | |
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| "Farewell to Black Hawk" (1832) | |
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| "Remember the Alamo!" (1836) | |
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| In Defense of a Free Press (1837) | |
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| "What Has the North to Do with Slavery?" (1838) | |
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| The Call to Rebellion (1843) | |
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| "My Grave Shall Be Made in Free Soil" (1846) | |
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| Against War with Mexico (1847) | |
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| "If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot" (1847) | |
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| A Call for a Measure of Compromise (1850) | |
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| "If You Have Woman's Rights, Give Them to Her" (1851) | |
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| "What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July?" (1852) | |
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| On the Fugitive Slave Law (1854) | |
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| "We Will Dwell Apart and in Peace" (1854) | |
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| "A Disappointed Woman" (1855) | |
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| "A House Divided" (1858) | |
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| Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (1858) | |
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| To the Court after Sentencing (1859) | |
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| On the Death of John Brown (1859) | |
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| Farewell to the Senate (1861) | |
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| The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| "With Malice toward None, with Charity for All" (1865) | |
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| "I Hold That I Am a Member of This Body" (1868) | |
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| Eulogy on the Dog (1870) | |
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| "We Will Remain at Peace with Your People Forever" (1872) | |
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| "Are Women Persons?" (1873) | |
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| "I Will Fight No More Forever" (1877) | |
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| "The Solitude of Self" (1892) | |
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| "A Cross of Gold" (1896) | |
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| "Acres of Diamonds" (late 1890s) | |
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| To the Machine Tenders Union (1898) | |
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| To the United Mine Workers of America (1901) | |
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| "Freeing the Children from Toil" (1905) | |
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| "In Behalf of Simplified Spelling" (1906) | |
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| Citizenship in a Republic (1910) | |
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| On the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) | |
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| The Coatesville Address (1912) | |
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| Tribute to Lincoln (1914) | |
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| "An Oath of Allegiance to a Great Ideal" (1915) | |
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| The Fundamental Principle of a Republic (1915) | |
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| "The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy" (1917) | |
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| "First Make Democracy Safe in America" (1917) | |
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| "While There Is a Lower Class, I Am in It" (1918) | |
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| In Defense of Leopold and Loeb (1924) | |
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| "Anything Un-American Cannot Live in the Sunlight" (1928) | |
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| "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself" (1933) | |
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| "The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" (1939) | |
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| "What Constitutes an American?" (1941) | |
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| "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" (1941) | |
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| "The Spirit of Liberty" (1944) | |
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| "The Eyes of the World Are upon You" (1944) | |
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| The Fala Address (1944) | |
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| "People of the Philippines: I Have Returned" (1944) | |
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| Eulogy at the Marine Corps Cemetery (1945) | |
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| To the United Nations (1947) | |
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| "The Four Horsemen of Calumny" (1950) | |
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| "I Decline to Accept the End of Man" (1950) | |
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| Forbidden to Speak at Cardozo High School Graduation (1951) | |
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| "Let My People Go" (1952) | |
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| The Checkers Speech (1952) | |
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| "There Comes a Time When People Get Tired" (1955) | |
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| "On the Blacklist All Our Lives" (1957) | |
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| "The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back" (1957) | |
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| "Ask What You Can Do for Your Country" (1961) | |
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| "Duty, Honor, Country" (1962) | |
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| "Let Them Come to Berlin" (1963) | |
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| "I Have a Dream" (1963) | |
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| "Four Little Girls Were Killed" (1963) | |
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| Eulogy for President John F. Kennedy (1963) | |
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| "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964) | |
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| "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice" (1964) | |
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| "History Has Not Ended" (1964) | |
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| "We Shall Overcome" (1965) | |
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| To the United Nations (1965) | |
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| "The Anvil of Individual Conscience" (1967) | |
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| "God Help Us to Be Men!" (1968) | |
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| "The Focus Is Vietnam" (1968) | |
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| "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968) | |
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| On the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) | |
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| "The Business of America Is War" (1969) | |
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| On the 350th Anniversary of Plymouth (1970) | |
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| "The Price of Liberty to Speak the Truth" (1971) | |
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| "My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole" (1974) | |
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| "I Shall Resign the Presidency" (1974) | |
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| "I Must 'Raise a Beef' about This Bill" (1975) | |
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| Commencement Address at Lake Forest College (1977) | |
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| At the Liberators Conference (1981) | |
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| "Look Around and See Only Friends" (1983) | |
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| To the Nation on the Challenger Disaster (1986) | |
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| On the Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987) | |
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| "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!" (1987) | |
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| To the Democratic National Convention (1988) | |
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| To the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team (1993) | |
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| To His Fans (1995) | |
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| "They Died for That Which Can Never Burn" (2000) | |
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| To the Young Speaker | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index of Speakers | |
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| Index of Themes | |