"There is a twofold liberty, natural... and civil or federal." : acquittal speech before the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1645 / John Winthrop
"Give me liberty or give me death." : speech to the second Virginia Convention, 23 March 1775 / Patrick Henry
"I agree to this Constitution for all its faults." : speech at the Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania, 17 September 1787 / Benjamin Franklin
"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." : farewell address, 17 September 1796 / George Washington
"We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." : inaugural address, Washington, 4 March 1801 / Thomas Jefferson
The Monroe Doctrine : address to Congress, 2 December 1823, Washington / James Monroe
The Declaration of Sentiments : address to the First Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, 19 July 1848 / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"And ain't I a woman?" : speech to the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, December 1851 / Sojourner Truth
"What to the American slave is your Fourth of July." : address to the citizens of Rochester, New York, 4 July 1852 / Frederick Douglass
"I deny everything but what i have all along admitted
the design on my part to free the slaves." : address to the court, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 2 November 1859 / John Brown
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation..." : the Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863 ; "With malice toward none; with charity for all..." : second inaugural address, 4 March 1865, Washington / Abraham Lincoln
The Battle of Little Bighorn : Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881 / Crazy Horse
"Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death." : funeral oration for President Garfield, Washington DC, 27 February 1882 / James G. Blaine
"Cast down your bucket where you are." : speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 18 September 1895 / Booker T. Washington
"The man with the muck rake." : speech at the laying of the corner stone of the Cannon Office Building, Washington DC, 15 April 1906 / Theodore Roosevelt
"The world must be made safe for democracy." : speech to Congress, 2 April 1917 / Woodrow Wilson
"Now at last we can begin." : speech at the First Feminist Congress, New York, 1919 / Crystal Eastman
"I believe in the law of love." : closing speech in defense of Henry Sweet, 11 May 1926 / Clarence Darrow
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." : inaugural address, 4 March 1933 ; "A date which will live in infamy." : speech to Congress, 8 December 1941 / Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Form and function seen as one: of such is democracy." : from a lecture given at Princeton (1930) and in London (1939) / Frank Lloyd Wright
"A bad break." : farewell to baseball, Lou Gehrig Day, 4 July 1939 / Lou Gehrig
"I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler." : speech to the US Third Army on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944 / General George S. Patton Jr
"The reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity." : Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2 November 1945 / J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Truman Doctrine : address to a Joint Session of Congress, 12 March 1947 / Harry S. Truman
"The international Magna Carta of all men everywhere." : approving the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Paris, France, 9 December 1948 / Eleanor Roosevelt
"Enemies from within." : speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, 9 February 1950 / Joseph R. McCarthy
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." : farewell address to Congress, Washington, 19 April 1951 / General Douglas MacArthur
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." : inaugural address, Washington, 20 January 1961 ; "Ich bin ein Berliner." : West Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1963 ; "Watchmen on the walls of world freedom." : undelivered speech, Dallas, Texas, 22 November 1963 / John F. Kennedy
"I have a dream." : Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, 28 August 1963 ; "I've seen the promised land." : Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 1968 / Martin Luther King Jr
"And we shall overcome." : address to a Joint Session of Congress, 15 March 1965 / Lyndon B. Johnson
"You can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree." : Detroit, 14 February 1965 / Malcolm X
"I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself." : on refusing to fight in Vietnam, July 1967 / Muhammad Ali
"I have some very sad news for all of you." : speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, 4 April 1968 / Robert F. Kennedy
"The Eagle has landed." : the race for the moon, 1963-72 / The space speeches
"There can be no whitewash at the White House." : address to the nation, 30 April 1973 / Richard M. Nixon
"The difficult decisions always come to this desk." : address to the nation, 8 September 1974 / Gerald Ford
"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc." : D-Day commemoration speech, Normandy, France, 6 June 1948 ; "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." : address to the nation, 28 January 1986 ; "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" : speech at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, 12 June 1987 / Ronald Reagan
"I wish him well." : commencement address at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1 June 1990 / Barbara Bush
"You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything." : Oklahoma City, 23 April 1995 / Bill Clinton
"The perils of indifference." : Seventh White House Millennium Evening, Washington, 12 April 1999 / Elie Wiesel
"We stand together to win the war against terrorism." : address to the nation, 11 September 2001 / George W. Bush
"This was not just an attack on the city of New York." : speech to the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 1 October 2001 / Rudolph Giuliani
