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26 Speeches That Changed America
1775-1828
Patrick Henry: Illusion of Hope, March 23, 1775 (22:34)
James Wilson: State House Yard Speech, October 6, 1787 (28:02)
George Washington: Farewell Address, 1796 (49:11)
Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 (18:49)
1829-1865
John C. Calhoun: Positive Good Speech, February 6, 1837 (45:25)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Declaration of Sentiments, July 20, 1848 (21:38)
William H. Seward: Higher Law Speech, March 11, 1850 (47:55)
Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? July 5, 1852 (36:42)
Alexander H. Stephens: Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861 (34:07)
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 (17:30)
1866-1945
William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold, July 8, 1896 (35:25)
Teddy Roosevelt: The Man with the Muck-rake, April 14, 1906 (36:31)
Woodrow Wilson: War Message to Congress, April 2, 1917 (32:04)
Franklin Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 (24:08)
Huey P. Long: Every Man a King, February 23, 1934 (35:48)
Franklin Roosevelt: Second Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944 (30:28)
1946-2002
Dwight Eisenhower: Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 (20:24)
John F. Kennedy: Inagural Address, January 20, 1961 (16:34)
Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country, May 12, 1962 (32:04)
George Wallace: First Inagural Address, January 14, 1963 (39:56)
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have A Dream, August 28, 1963 (22:39)
Lyndon Johnson: Great Society Speech, May 22, 1964 (21:07)
Richard Nixon: The Great Silent Majority, November 3, 1969 (38:33)
Jimmy Carter: Crisis of Confidence, July 15, 1979 (28:04)
Ronald Reagan: Berlin Wall Speech, June 12, 1987 (25:02)
George W. Bush: Axis of Evil, January 29, 2002 (38:32)
Alexander H. Stephens: Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861
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