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Noteworthy Speeches | Megasites

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A little dog named Checkers; a day that will live in infamy; give me liberty or give me death; are just a few of the familiar phases from famous political speeches. Well here they are in full-text.

Noteworthy Speeches

George W. Bush - 43rd President, Inaugural Address
Patrick Henry - The War Inevitable (Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death)
March, 1775
Daniel Webster - Several speeches given between 1818 - 1852
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - November 19, 1863
Winston Churchill's Blood, Sweat & Tears
Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (League of Nations) - January 8, 1918
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Day of Infamy Speech Declaring War on Japan December 8, 1941
Truman Doctrine Address to Congress March 12, 1947
Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech-September 23, 1952
Candidate John F. Kennedy's speech before Houston ministers September 12, 1960
Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address "Military-Industrial Complex" speech January 17, 1961
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech - August 28, 1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson decides not to run for President - March 31, 1968
Richard Nixon's Resignation Speech - August 8, 1974
Gerald Ford's speech announcing Nixon pardon - September 8, 1974
George W. Bush Attack on American -September 20, 2001
Washington's Farwell Address, 1796

Speech Megasites

Texas A & M Center for Presidential Rhetoric
Full text significant speeches from selected U.S. Presidents.

History Channel
Extensive list of audio historic speeches from the History Channel

Extensive listing of full-text historic speeches from HistoryPlace.Com.

Inaugural Speeches of U.S. Presidents from Re: Quest dot Net.

Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University
Samples of an extensive collection of speeches, performances and interviews. Audio card, speakers, and compatible software required.

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