American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank

 

Rank Speaker Title/Text/MultiMedia Audio Transcript

1 Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have A Dream" mp3

2

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Inaugural Address

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3

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address

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4

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

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5

Barbara Charline Jordan

1976 DNC Keynote Address

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6 Richard Milhous Nixon

"Checkers"

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7 Malcolm X

"The Ballot or the Bullet"

mp3

8 Ronald Wilson Reagan

Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address

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9

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Houston Ministerial Association Speech

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10 Lyndon Baines Johnson

"We Shall Overcome"

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11 Mario Matthew Cuomo

1984 DNC Keynote Address

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12 Jesse Louis Jackson

1984 DNC Address

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13

Barbara Charline Jordan

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

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14

(General) Douglas MacArthur

Farewell Address to Congress

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15

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

Real Audio

16 Theodore Roosevelt

"The Man with the Muck-rake"

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17 Robert Francis Kennedy

Remarks on the Assassination of MLK

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18 Dwight David Eisenhower

Farewell Address

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19

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

War Message

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20

(General) Douglas MacArthur

"Duty, Honor, Country"

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21

Richard Milhous Nixon

"The Great Silent Majority"

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22

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

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23

Clarence Seward Darrow

"Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"

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24

Russell H. Conwell

"Acres of Diamonds"

mp3-Excerpt PDF  FLASH

25

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"A Time for Choosing"

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