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  1. “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963 Washington, DC

  2. Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy January 20, 1961 Washington, DC

  3. First Inaugural Address Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4, 1933 Washington, DC

  4. War Message (“A Date which Will Live in Infamy”) Franklin D. Roosevelt December 8, 1941 Washington, DC

  5. Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention Barbara Jordan July 12, 1976 New York, N.Y .

  6. “My Side of the Story” (“Checkers”) Richard M. Nixon September 23, 1952 Los Angeles, Calif.

  7. “The Ballot or the Bullet” Malcolm X April 3, 1964 Cleveland, Ohio

  8. Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster Ronald Reagan January 28, 1986 Washington, DC

  9. Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association John F. Kennedy September 12, 1960 Houston, Tex.

  10. Address to Congress on the Voting Rights Act (“We Shall Overcome”) Lyndon B. Johnson March 15, 1965 Washington, DC

  11. Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention (“A Tale of Two Cities”) Mario Cuomo July 17, 1984 San Francisco, Calif.

  12. Speech at the Democratic National Convention (“The Rainbow Coalition”) Jesse Jackson July 17, 1984 San Francisco, Calif.

  13. Statement on the Articles of Impeachment Barbara Jordan July 25, 1974 Washington, DC

  14. Farewell Address to Congress (“Old Soldiers Never Die”) Douglas MacArthur April 19, 1951 Washington, DC

  15. “I've Been to the Mountaintop” Martin Luther King, Jr. April 3, 1968 Memphis, Tenn.

  16. “The Man with the Muckrake” Theodore Roosevelt April 14, 1906 Washington, DC

  17. Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy April 4, 1968 Indianapolis, Ind.

  18. Farewell Address Dwight D. Eisenhower January 17, 1961 Washington, DC

  19. War Message (“The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy”) Woodrow Wilson April 2, 1917 Washington, DC

  20. Farewell Address at the U.S. Military Academy (“Duty, Honor, Country”) Douglas MacArthur May 12, 1962 West Point, N.Y.

  21. Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (“The Great Silent Majority”) Richard M. Nixon November 3, 1969 Washington, DC

  22. “Ich bin ein Berliner” John F. Kennedy June 26, 1963 West Berlin, Germany

  23. Plea for Mercy at the Trial of Leopold and Loeb Clarence Darrow Aug. 22, 23, and 25, 1924 Chicago, Ill.

  24. “Acres of Diamonds” Russell Conwell 1900–1925 Delivered at many spots across the U.S.

  25. Televised Speech on Behalf of Barry Goldwater (“A Time for Choosing”) Ronald Reagan October 27, 1964 Los Angeles, Calif.

  26. “Every Man a King” Huey Pierce Long February 23, 1934 Washington, DC

  27. “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic” Anna Howard Shaw June 21, 1915 Ogdensburg, N.Y.

  28. “The Arsenal of Democracy” Franklin D. Roosevelt December 29, 1940 Washington, DC

  29. Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals (“The Evil Empire”) Ronald Reagan March 8, 1983 Orlando, Fla.

  30. First Inaugural Address Ronald Reagan January 20, 1981 Washington, DC

  31. First Fireside Chat (“The Banking Crisis”) Franklin D. Roosevelt March 12, 1933 Washington, DC

  32. Address to Congress on Greece and Turkey (“The Truman Doctrine”) Harry S Truman March 12, 1947 Washington, DC

  33. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature William Faulkner December 10, 1950 Stockholm, Sweden

  34. Statement to the Court Eugene V. Debs September 14, 1918 Cleveland, Ohio

  35. Address to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women (“Women's Rights Are Humans Rights”) Hillary Rodham Clinton September 5, 1995 Beijing, China

  36. “Atoms for Peace” Dwight D. Eisenhower December 8, 1953 New York, N.Y.

  37. American University Speech John F. Kennedy June 10, 1963 Washington, DC

  38. Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention Ann Richards July 18, 1988 Atlanta, Ga.

  39. Address to the Nation Resigning the Presidency Richard M. Nixon August 8, 1974 Washington, DC

  40. “The Fourteen Points” Woodrow Wilson January 8, 1918 Washington, DC

  41. “Declaration of Conscience” Margaret Chase Smith June 1, 1950 Washington, DC

42 “The Four Freedoms” Franklin D. Roosevelt January 6, 1941 Washington, DC

  1. Speech at Riverside Church (“A Time to Break Silence”) Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967 New York, N.Y .

  2. “What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States” Mary Church Terrell October 10, 1906 Washington, DC

  3. Speech Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination (“Against Imperialism”) William Jennings Bryan August 8, 1900 Indianapolis, Ind.

  4. “A Moral Necessity for Birth Control” Margaret Sanger 1921–1922 Delivered several times for the American Birth Control League

47 Commencement Speech at Wellesley College (“Choices and Change”) Barbara Bush June 1, 1990 Wellesley, Mass.

  1. Address to the Nation on Civil Rights (“A Moral Issue”) John F. Kennedy June 11, 1963 Washington, DC

  2. Address to the Nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy October 22, 1962 Washington, DC

  3. “Television News Coverage” Spiro Agnew 13 Nov. 1969 Des Moines, Iowa