Lend me your ears: great speeches in history

pt. I. Memorials and patriotic speeches: Pericles

Roman Empress Theodora

Gouverneur Morris

Daniel Webster

Frances Wright

Abraham Lincoln

Mark Twain

President Calvin Coolidge

Harold Ickes

Judge Learned Hand

Menachem Begin

Adlai Stevenson

General Douglas MacAthur.

pt. II. War and revolution speeches: Catiline

Pope Urban II

Queen Elizabeth

Patrick Henry

General Washington

Richard Price

George-Jacques Danton

Napoleon

Garibaldi

Jefferson Davis

Chief Joseph

President Woodrow Wilson

Lenin

Mussolini

Hitler

Winston Churchill

Stalin

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

General Montgomery

Senator Eugene McCarthy

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Yitzhak Rabin.

pt. III. Tributes and eulogies: Mark Antony

Edmund Burke

Henry Lee

Daneil Webster

Senator George Graham

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frederick Douglass

Robert Green

James Blaine

Jane Addams

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise

Will Rogers

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin

George Bernard Shaw

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

John F. Kennedy

Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Eric Sevareid

President Richard M. Nixon

President Jimmy Carter

Senator Daniel P. Moynihan

Secretary Jack Kemp

President Boris Yeltsin

Senator Robert Dole.

pt. IV. Debates and argumentation: Cicero

William Pitt the Elder

William Pitt the Younger

Senator Daniel Webster

Senator John C. Calhoun

Charles Sumner

Senator Stephen Douglas

John Cabell Breckinridge

Henry Cabot Lodge

Emperor Haile Selassie

Nixon and Kennedy

Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen.

pt. V. Trials: Job

Martin Luther

Sir Thomas More

Robert Emmet

Emile Zola

Eugene V. Debs

Gandhi

Clarence Darrow

Fidel Castro

Anotoly Shcharansky.

pt. VI. Gallows and farewell speeches: Socrates

Charles I

Richard Rumbold

Robespierre

President George Washington

John Brown

King Edward VIII

Lou Gehrig

General Douglas MacArthur

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

President Lyndon B. Johnson

James Wright.

pt. VII. Sermons: The Buddha

Jesus of Nazareth

Saint Frances

John Wyclif

Savonarola

John Calvin

Jonathan Edwards

John Wesley

John Witherspoon

Chief Red Jacket

Bishop James Madison

Abraham Lincoln

Henry Ward Beecher

Billy Sunday

Bishop Fulton John Sheen

Karl Barth

Rabbi Louis Finkelstein

President Ronald Reagan

Billy Graham

The Dalai Lama.

pt. VIII. Inspirational speeches: Louis Pasteur

Theodore Roosevelt

Mark Twain

Branch Rickey

Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

William Faulkner

President John F. Kennedy

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

Senator Everett Dirksen

President William Jefferson Clinton.

pt. IX. Lectures and instructive speeches: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Twain

Lady Astor

William Lyon Phelps

John Hilton

Frank Lloyd Wright

Dean Acheson

Senator Henry Jackson

Alistair Cooke

Jack Valenti.

pt. X. Speeches of social responsibility: William Pitt the Younger

Lord Byron

Maria Stewart

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sojourner Truth

William Lloyd Garrison

Chief Seattle

Susan B. Anthony

Governor Huey Long

John L. Lewis

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Walter Lippmann

Bernard Baruch

Senator Robert Taft

Governor Jim Folsom

Senator Margaret Chase Smith

Malcolm X

Elie Wiesel

Carl Sagan

Vaclav Havel

Vice President Albert Gore

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

pt. XI. Media speeches: Thomas Jefferson

Edward R. Murrow

Clare Booth Luce

Newton Minow

Daniel J. Boorstin

Vice President Spiro Agnew

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

A.M. Rosenthal

Daniel Schorr

Salman Rushdie.

pt. XII. Political Speeches: Demosthenes

John Winthrop

Edmund Burke

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Macaulay

William Cobbert

Senator Henry Clay

Karl Marx

Abraham Lincoln

Representative J. Proctor Knott

Benjamin Disraeli

King Kalakaua

Prime Minister Gladstone

William Jennings Bryan

Claude Bowers

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Winston Churchill

Judge Noah Sweat

Hubert H. Humphrey

President Harry Truman

Adlai Stevenson

Premier Nikita Khrushchev

President John F. Kennedy

President Charles de Gaulle

Barry Goldwater

President Richard M. Nixon

Representative Barbara Jordan

President Gerald Ford

President Anwar el-Sadat

Senator Edward M. Kennedy

President Ronald Reagan

Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick

Neil Kinnock

Henry Kissinger

George Bush

President Mikhail Gorbachev

Patrick J. Buchanan.

pt. XIII. Commencement speeches: President Woodrow Wilson

William Allen White

Arthur Burns

Art Buchwald

William Safire

Felix G. Rohatyn

Governor Mario Cuomo

Lane Kirkland

Jacob Neusner

General Colin Powell

David J. Mahoney.

Memorials and patriotic speeches

War and revolution speeches

Tributes and eulogies

Debates and argumentation

Trials

Gallows and farewell speeches

Sermons

Inspirational speeches

Lectures and instructive speeches

Speeches of social responsibility

Media speeches

Political speeches

Commencement speeches

Undelivered speeches.