| Rank |
Title
Title |
Speaker |
Date |
Place |
| 1 |
"I Have a Dream" |
Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
28 Aug 1963 |
Washington, DC |
| 2 |
Inaugural Address |
John F. Kennedy |
20 Jan 1961 |
Washington, DC |
| 3 |
First Inaugural Address
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
4 Mar 1933 |
Washington, DC |
| 4 |
War Message ("A Date which
Will Live in Infamy") |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
8 Dec 1941 |
Washington, DC |
| 5 |
Keynote Speech to the Democratic
National Convention |
Barbara Jordan |
12 July 1976 |
New York, NY |
| 6 |
"My Side of the Story" ("Checkers")
|
Richard M. Nixon |
23 Sept 1952 |
Los Angeles, CA |
| 7 |
"The Ballot or the Bullet"
|
Malcolm X |
3 Apr 1964 |
Cleveland, OH |
| 8 |
Address to the Nation on
the Challenger Disaster |
Ronald Reagan |
28 Jan 1986 |
Washington, DC |
| 9 |
Speech to the Greater Houston
Ministerial Association |
John F. Kennedy |
12 Sept 1960 |
Houston, TX |
| 10 |
Address to Congress on the
Voting Rights Act ("We Shall Overcome") |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
15 Mar 1965 |
Washington, DC |
| 11 |
Keynote Speech to the Democratic
National Convention ("A Tale of Two Cities") |
Mario Cuomo |
17 July 1984 |
San Francisco, CA |
| 12 |
Speech at the Democratic
National Convention ("The Rainbow Coalition") |
Jesse Jackson |
17 July 1984 |
San Francisco, CA |
| 13 |
Statement on the Articles
of Impeachment |
Barbara Jordan |
25 July 1974 |
Washington, DC |
| 14 |
Farewell Address to Congress
("Old Soldiers Never Die") |
Douglas MacArthur |
19 Apr 1951 |
Washington, DC |
| 15 |
"I've Been to the Mountaintop"
|
Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
3 Apr 1968 |
Memphis, TN |
| 16 |
"The Man with the Muckrake"
|
Theodore Roosevelt |
14 Apr 1906 |
Washington, DC |
| 17 |
Statement on the Assassination
of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Robert F. Kennedy |
4 Apr 1968 |
Indianapolis, IN |
| 18 |
Farewell Address |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
17 Jan 1961 |
Washington, DC |
| 19 |
War Message ("The World
Must Be Made Safe for Democracy") |
Woodrow Wilson |
2 Apr 1917 |
Washington, DC |
| 20 |
Farewell Address at the
U.S. Military Academy ("Duty, Honor, Country") |
Douglas MacArthur |
12 May 1962 |
West Point, NY |
| 21 |
Address to the Nation on
the War in Vietnam ("The Great Silent Majority") |
Richard M. Nixon |
3 Nov 1969 |
Washington, DC |
| 22 |
"Ich bin ein Berliner" |
John F. Kennedy |
26 June 1963 |
West Berlin, Germany |
| 23 |
Plea for Mercy at the Trial
of Leopold and Loeb |
Clarence Darrow |
22, 23, and 25 Aug 1924
|
Chicago, IL |
| 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 |
27 Oct 1964 |
Los Angeles, CA |
| 26 |
"Every Man a King" |
Huey Pierce Long |
23 Feb 1934 |
Washington, DC |
| 27 |
"The Fundamental Principle
of a Republic" |
Anna Howard Shaw |
21 June 1915 |
Ogdensburg, NY |
| 28 |
"The Arsenal of Democracy"
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
29 Dec 1940 |
Washington, DC |
| 29 |
Speech to the National Association
of Evangelicals ("The Evil Empire") |
Ronald Reagan |
8 Mar 1983 |
Orlando, FL |
| 30 |
First Inaugural Address
|
Ronald Reagan |
20 Jan 1981 |
Washington, DC |
| 31 |
First Fireside Chat ("The
Banking Crisis") |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
12 Mar 1933 |
Washington, DC |
| 32 |
Address to Congress on Greece
and Turkey ("The Truman Doctrine") |
Harry S Truman |
12 Mar 1947 |
Washington, DC |
| 33 |
Speech Accepting the Nobel
Prize in Literature |
William Faulkner |
10 Dec 1950 |
Stockholm, Sweden |
| 34 |
Statement to the Court |
Eugene V. Debs |
14 Sept 1918 |
Cleveland, OH |
| 35 |
Address to the U.N. Fourth
World Conference on Women ("Women's Rights Are Humans Rights")
|
Hillary Rodham Clinton |
5 Sept 1995 |
Beijing, China |
| 36 |
"Atoms for Peace" |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
8 Dec 1953 |
New York, NY |
| 37 |
American University Speech
|
John F. Kennedy |
10 June 1963 |
Washington, DC |
| 38 |
Keynote Speech to the Democratic
National Convention |
Ann Richards |
18 July 1988 |
Atlanta, GA |
| 39 |
Address to the Nation Resigning
the Presidency |
Richard M. Nixon |
8 Aug 1974 |
Washington, DC |
| 40 |
"The Fourteen Points" |
Woodrow Wilson |
8 Jan 1918 |
Washington, DC |
| 41 |
"Declaration of Conscience"
|
Margaret Chase Smith |
1 June 1950 |
Washington, DC |
| 42 |
"The Four Freedoms" |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
6 Jan 1941 |
Washington, DC |
| 43 |
Speech at Riverside Church
("A Time to Break Silence") |
Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
4 Apr 1967 |
New York, NY |
| 44 |
"What It Means to Be Colored
in the Capital of the United States" |
Mary Church Terrell |
10 Oct 1906 |
Washington, DC |
| 45 |
Speech Accepting the Democratic
Presidential Nomination ("Against Imperialism") |
William Jennings Bryan |
8 Aug 1900 |
Indianapolis, IN |
| 46 |
"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 |
1 June 1990 |
Wellesley, MA |
| 48 |
Address to the Nation on
Civil Rights ("A Moral Issue") |
John F. Kennedy |
11 June 1963 |
Washington, DC |
| 49 |
Address to the Nation on
the Cuban Missile Crisis |
John F. Kennedy |
22 Oct 1962 |
Washington, DC |
| 50 |
"Television News Coverage"
|
Spiro Agnew |
13 Nov. 1969 |
Des Moines, IA |
| 51 |
Speech to the Democratic
National Convention ("Common Ground and Common Sense") |
Jesse Jackson |
20 July 1988 |
Atlanta, GA |
| 52 |
Speech to the Republican
National Convention ("A Whisper of AIDS") |
Mary Fisher |
19 Aug 1992 |
Houston, TX |
| 53 |
"The Great Society" |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
22 May 1964 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
| 54 |
"The Marshall Plan" |
George C. Marshall |
5 June 1947 |
Cambridge, MA |
| 55 |
"Truth and Tolerance in
America" |
Edward M. Kennedy |
3 Oct 1983 |
Lynchburg, VA |
| 56 |
Speech Accepting the Democratic
Presidential Nomination ("Let's Talk Sense to American People")
|
Adlai Stevenson |
26 July 1952 |
Chicago, IL |
| 57 |
"The Struggle for Human
Rights" |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
28 Sept 1948 |
Paris, France |
| 58 |
Speech Accepting the Democratic
Vice-Presidential Nomination |
Geraldine Ferraro |
19 July 1984 |
San Francisco, CA |
| 59 |
"Free Speech in Wartime"
|
Robert M. La Follette |
6 Oct 1917 |
Washington, DC |
| 60 |
Address at the U.S. Ranger
Monument on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day |
Ronald Reagan |
6 June 1984 |
Pointe du Hoc, Normandy,
France |
| 61 |
"Religious Belief and Public
Morality" |
Mario Cuomo |
13 Sept 1984 |
Notre Dame, IN |
| 62 |
Televised Statement to the
People of Massachusetts ("Chappaquiddick") |
Edward M. Kennedy |
25 July 1969 |
Boston, MA |
| 63 |
"Labor and the Nation" ("The
Rights of Labor") |
John L. Lewis |
3 Sept 1937 |
Washington, DC |
| 64 |
Speech Accepting the Republican
Presidential Nomination ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty
Is No Vice") |
Barry Goldwater |
16 July 1964 |
San Francisco, CA |
| 65 |
"Black Power" |
Stokely Carmichael |
Oct 1966 |
Berkeley, CA |
| 66 |
Speech at the Democratic
National Convention ("The Sunshine of Human Rights") |
Hubert H. Humphrey |
14 July 1948 |
Philadelphia, PA |
| 67 |
Address to the Jury |
Emma Goldman |
9 July 1917 |
New York, NY |
| 68 |
"The Crisis" |
Carrie Chapman Catt |
7 Sept 1916 |
Atlantic City, NJ |
| 69 |
"Television and the Public
Interest" ("A Vast Wasteland") |
Newton W. Minow |
9 May 1961 |
Washington, DC |
| 70 |
Eulogy to Robert Kennedy
|
Edward M. Kennedy |
8 June 1968 |
New York, NY |
| 71 |
Statement to the Senate
Judiciary Committee |
Anita Hill |
11 Oct 1991 |
Washington, DC |
| 72 |
Final Address in Support
of the League of Nations |
Woodrow Wilson |
25 Sept 1919 |
Pueblo, CO |
| 73 |
Farewell to Baseball |
Lou Gehrig |
4 July 1939 |
New York, NY |
| 74 |
Address to the Nation on
the Cambodian Incursion |
Richard M. Nixon |
30 Apr 1970 |
Washington, DC |
| 75 |
"Address to the United States
Congress" |
Carrie Chapman Catt |
Nov 1917 |
Washington, DC |
| 76 |
Speech at the Democratic
National Convention ("The Dream Shall Never Die") |
Edward M. Kennedy |
12 Aug 1980 |
New York, NY |
| 77 |
Address to the Nation on
Vietnam and the Decision Not to Seek Re-Election |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
31 Mar 1968 |
Washington, DC |
| 78 |
Speech to the Commonwealth
Club |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
23 Sept 1932 |
San Francisco, CA |
| 79 |
First Inaugural Address
|
Woodrow Wilson |
4 Mar 1913 |
Washington, DC |
| 80 |
"An End to History" |
Mario Savio |
2 Dec 1964 |
Berkeley, CA |
| 81 |
Speech at the Democratic
National Convention ("AIDS: A Personal Story") |
Elizabeth Glaser |
14 July 1992 |
New York, NY |
| 82 |
"The Issue" |
Eugene V. Debs |
23 May 1908 |
Girard, KS |
| 83 |
The Children's Era |
Margaret Sanger |
Mar 1925 |
New York, NY |
| 84 |
"A Left-Handed Commencement
Address" |
Ursula Le Guin |
22 May 1983 |
Oakland, CA |
| 85 |
"Now We Can Begin" |
Crystal Eastman |
Sept-Oct 1920 |
New York, NY |
| 86 |
Radio Broadcast of March
7, 1935 ("Share Our Wealth") |
Huey Pierce Long |
7 Mar 1935 |
Washington, DC |
| 87 |
Address on Taking the Oath
of Office ("Our Long National Nightmare Is Over") |
Gerald Ford |
9 Aug 1974 |
Washington, DC |
| 88 |
Speech on Ending His Fast
|
Cesar Chavez |
10 Mar 1968 |
Delano, CA |
| 89 |
Statement at the Smith Act
Trial |
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn |
2 Feb 1953 |
New York, NY |
| 90 |
Address to the Nation on
Energy and National Goals ("A Crisis of Confidence") |
Jimmy Carter |
15 July 1979 |
Washington, DC |
| 91 |
"Message to the Grassroots"
|
Malcolm X |
10 Nov 1963 |
Detroit, MI |
| 92 |
Speech at the Prayer Service
for Victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing |
Bill Clinton |
23 Apr 1995 |
Oklahoma City, OK |
| 93 |
"For the Equal Rights Amendment"
|
Shirley Chisholm |
10 Aug 1970 |
Washington, DC |
| 94 |
Address at the Brandenburg
Gate |
Ronald Reagan |
12 June 1987 |
West Berlin, Germany |
| 95 |
"The Perils of Indifference"
|
Elie Wiesel |
12 Apr 1999 |
Washington, DC |
| 96 |
Address to the Nation on
Pardoning Richard M. Nixon |
Gerald Ford |
8 Sept 1974 |
Washington, DC |
| 97 |
"For the League of Nations"
|
Woodrow Wilson |
6 Sept 1919 |
Des Moines, IA |
| 98 |
Address to Congress after
Assuming the Presidency ("Let Us Continue") |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
27 Nov 1963 |
Washington, DC |
| 99 |
Defense of Fred Fisher at
the Army-McCarthy Hearings ("Have You No Sense of Decency?")
|
Joseph Welch |
9 June 1954 |
Washington, DC |
| 100 |
"Adoption of the Declaration
of Human Rights" |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
9 Dec 1948 |
Paris, France |
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