Speeches by and for Decision-Makers

Top 100 speeches from and according to American Rhetoric:

Rank, Speaker, Title/Text, Audio:

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have A Dream" mp3
2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural Address mp3
3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address mp3
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation mp3
5. Barbara Charline Jordan 1976 DNC Keynote Address mp3
6. Richard Milhous Nixon "Checkers" mp3
7. Malcolm X "The Ballot or the Bullet" mp3
8. Ronald Wilson Reagan Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address mp3
9. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Houston Ministerial Association Speech mp3
10. Lyndon Baines Johnson "We Shall Overcome" mp3
11. Mario Matthew Cuomo 1984 DNC Keynote Address mp3
12. Jesse Louis Jackson 1984 DNC Address mp3
13. Barbara Charline Jordan Statement on the Articles of Impeachment mp3
14. General Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address to Congress mp3
15. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I've Been to the Mountaintop" mp3
16. Theodore Roosevelt "The Man with the Muck-rake"
17. Robert Francis Kennedy Remarks on the Assassination of MLK mp3
18. Dwight David Eisenhower Farewell Address mp3
19. Thomas Woodrow Wilson War Message
20. General Douglas MacArthur "Duty, Honor, Country" mp3
21. Richard Milhous Nixon "The Great Silent Majority" mp3
22. John Fitzgerald Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" mp3
23. Clarence Seward Darrow "Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"
24. Russell H. Conwell "Acres of Diamonds" mp3
25. Ronald Wilson Reagan Time for Choosing" mp3
26. Huey Pierce Long "Every Man a King"
27. Anna Howard Shaw "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"
28. Franklin Delano Roosevelt "The Arsenal of Democracy" mp3
29. Ronald Wilson Reagan "The Evil Empire" mp3
30. Ronald Wilson Reagan First Inaugural Address mp3
31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Fireside Chat mp3
32. Harry S. Truman "The Truman Doctrine" mp3
33. William Cuthbert Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech mp3
34. Eugene Victor Debs 1918 Statement to the Court
35. Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton "Women's Rights are Human Rights" mp3
36. Dwight David Eisenhower "Atoms for Peace" mp3
37. John Fitzgerald Kennedy American University Commencement Address mp3
38. Dorothy Ann Willis Richards 1988 DNC Keynote Address mp3
39. Richard Milhous Nixon Resignation Speech mp3
40. Thomas Woodrow Wilson "The Fourteen Points"
41. Margaret Chase Smith "Declaration of Conscience"
42. Franklin Delano Roosevelt "The Four Freedoms" mp3
43. Martin Luther King, Jr. "A Time to Break Silence" mp3
44. Mary Church Terrell "What it Means to be Colored in the...U.S."
45. William Jennings Bryan "Against Imperialism" mp3
46. Margaret Higgins Sanger "The Morality of Birth Control"
47. Barbara Pierce Bush 1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address mp3
48. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Civil Rights Address mp3
49. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Address mp3
50. Spiro Theodore Agnew "Television News Coverage" mp3
51. Jesse Louis Jackson 1988 DNC Address mp3.1 mp3.2
52. Mary Fisher "A Whisper of AIDS" mp3
53. Lyndon Baines Johnson "The Great Society" mp3
54. George Catlett Marshall "The Marshall Plan" mp3
55. Edward Moore Kennedy "Truth and Tolerance in America" mp3
56. Adlai Ewing Stevenson Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address mp3
57. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt "The Struggle for Human Rights"
58. Geraldine Anne Ferraro Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech mp3
59. Robert Marion La Follette "Free Speech in Wartime"
60. Ronald Wilson Reagan 40th Anniversary of D-Day Address mp3
61. Mario Matthew Cuomo "Religious Belief and Public Morality" mp3
62. Edward Moore Kennedy "Chappaquiddick" mp3
63. John Llewellyn Lewis "The Rights of Labor"
64. Barry Morris Goldwater Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address mp3
65. Stokely Carmichael "Black Power" mp3
66. Hubert Horatio Humphrey 1948 DNC Address Off-site Audio
67. Emma Goldman Address to the Jury
68. Carrie Chapman Catt "The Crisis"
69. Newton Norman Minow "Television and the Public Interest" mp3
70. Edward Moore Kennedy Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy mp3
71. Anita Faye Hill Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee mp3
72. Thomas Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Final Address
73. Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig Farewell to Baseball Address mp3
74. Richard Milhous Nixon Cambodian Incursion Address mp3
75. Carrie Chapman Catt Address to the U.S. Congress
76. Edward Moore Kennedy 1980 DNC Address mp3
77. Lyndon Baines Johnson On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election mp3
78. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commonwealth Club Address
79. Thomas Woodrow Wilson First Inaugural Address
80. Mario Savio "Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History" mp3
81. Elizabeth Glaser 1992 DNC Address mp3
82. Eugene Victor Debs "The Issue"
83. Margaret Higgins Sanger "The Children's Era"
84. Ursula Le Guin "A Left-Handed Commencement Address"
85. Crystal Eastman "Now We Can Begin"
86. Huey Pierce Long "Share Our Wealth"
87. Gerald Rudolph Ford Address on Taking the Oath of Office mp3
88. Cesar Estrada Chavez Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast
89. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Statement at the Smith Act Trial
90. Jimmy Earl Carter "A Crisis of Confidence" mp3
91. Malcolm X "Message to the Grassroots" mp3
92. William Jefferson Clinton Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address mp3
93. Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm "For the Equal Rights Amendment"
94. Ronald Wilson Reagan Brandenburg Gate Address mp3
95. Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel "The Perils of Indifference" mp3
96. Gerald Rudolph Ford National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon mp3
97. Thomas Woodrow Wilson "For the League of Nations"
98. Lyndon Baines Johnson "Let Us Continue" mp3
99. Joseph N. Welch "Have You No Sense of Decency" mp3
100. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights mp3