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

Decade	Speaker	Title/Text	Audio	Duration
1900-1910
1900-1925	Russell H. Conwell	"Acres of Diamonds"	mp3	Short Excerpt
08 Aug 1900	William Jennings Bryan	"Against Imperialism"	mp3	Short Excerpt
14 Apr 1906	Theodore Roosevelt	"The Man with the Muck-rake"
10 Oct 1906	Mary Church Terrell	"What it Means to be Colored in the...U.S."
23 May 1908	Eugene Victor Debs	"The Issue"

1911-1920
04 Mar 1913	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	First Inaugural Address
21 Jun 1915	Anna Howard Shaw	"The Fundamental Principle of a Republic"
07 Sep 1916	Carrie Chapman Catt	"The Crisis"
02 Apr 1917	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	War Message
09 Jul 1917	Emma Goldman	Address to the Jury
06 Oct 1917	Robert Marion La Follette	"Free Speech in Wartime"
?? Nov 1917	Carrie Chapman Catt	Address to the U.S. Congress
08 Jan 1918	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	"The Fourteen Points"
14 Sep 1918	Eugene Victor Debs	1918 Statement to the Court
06 Sep 1919	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	"For the League of Nations"
25 Sep 1919	Thomas Woodrow Wilson	League of Nations Final Address

1921-1930
Sep-Oct 1920	Crystal Eastman	"Now We Can Begin"
1921-1922	Margaret Higgins Sanger	"The Morality of Birth Control"
Aug 1924	Clarence Seward Darrow	"Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"
Mar 1925	Margaret Higgins Sanger	"The Children's Era"

1931-1940
23 Sep 1932	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Commonwealth Club Address
04 Mar 1933	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	First Inaugural Address	mp3	Entire
12 Mar 1933	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	First Fireside Chat	mp3	Entire
23 Feb 1934	Huey Pierce Long	"Every Man a King"
07 Mar 1935	Huey Pierce Long	"Share Our Wealth"
03 Sep 1937	John Llewellyn Lewis	"The Rights of Labor"
04 Jul 1939	Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig	Farewell to Baseball Address
29 Dec 1940	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	"The Arsenal of Democracy"	mp3	Entire

1941-1950
08 Dec 1941	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation	mp3	Entire
06 Jan 1941	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	"The Four Freedoms"	mp3	Entire
12 Mar 1947	Harry S. Truman	"The Truman Doctrine"	mp3	Entire
05 Jun 1947	George Catlett Marshall	"The Marshall Plan"	mp3	Entire
14 Jul 1948	Hubert Horatio Humphrey	1948 DNC Address	Off-site Audio	Entire
09 Dec 1948	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	Adopting the Declaration of Human Rights	mp3	Entire
28 Dec 1948	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	"The Struggle for Human Rights"
01 Jun 1950	Margaret Chase Smith	"Declaration of Conscience"
10 Dec 1950	William Cuthbert Faulkner	Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech	Real Audio	Entire

1951-1960
19 Apr 1951	(General) Douglas MacArthur	Farewell Address to Congress
26 Jul 1952	Adlai Ewing Stevenson	Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
23 Sep 1952	Richard Milhous Nixon	"Checkers"	mp3	Entire
02 Feb 1953	Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	Statement at the Smith Act Trial
08 Dec 1953	Dwight David Eisenhower	"Atoms for Peace"	mp3	Entire
09 Jun 1954	Joseph N. Welch	"Have You No Sense of Decency"
12 Sep 1960	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Houston Ministerial Association Speech	mp3	Entire

1961-1970
17 Jan 1961	Dwight David Eisenhower	Farewell Address	mp3	Entire
20 Jan 1961	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Inaugural Address	mp3	Entire
09 May 1961	Newton Norman Minow	"Television and the Public Interest"	mp3	Entire
12 May 1962	(General) Douglas MacArthur	"Duty, Honor, Country"	mp3	Entire
10 Jun 1963	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	American University Commencement Address	mp3	Entire
11 Jun 1963	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Civil Rights Address	mp3	Entire
22 Oct 1962	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Cuban Missile Crisis Address	mp3	Entire
26 Jun 1963	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	"Ich bin ein Berliner"	mp3	Entire
28 Aug 1963	Martin Luther King, Jr.	"I Have A Dream"	mp3	Entire
03 Apr 1964	Malcolm X	"The Ballot or the Bullet"
27 Oct 1964	Ronald Wilson Reagan	"A Time for Choosing"	mp3	Entire
22 May 1964	Lyndon Baines Johnson	"The Great Society"	mp3	Entire
16 Jul 1964	Barry Morris Goldwater	Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
10 Nov 1963	Malcolm X	"Message to the Grassroots"
27 Nov 1963	Lyndon Baines Johnson	"Let Us Continue"	mp3	Entire
02 Dec 1964	Mario Savio	"Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech/An End to History"	mp3	Entire
15 Mar 1965	Lyndon Baines Johnson	"We Shall Overcome"	mp3	Entire
?? Oct 1966	Stokely Carmichael	"Black Power"	mp3	Entire
10 Mar 1968	Cesar Estrada Chavez	Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast
31 Mar 1968	Lyndon Baines Johnson	On Vietnam and Not Seeking Re-Election	mp3	Entire
04 Apr 1967	Martin Luther King, Jr.	"A Time to Break Silence"
03 Apr 1968	Martin Luther King, Jr.	"I've Been to the Mountaintop"	Real Audio	Entire
04 Apr 1968	Robert Francis Kennedy	Remarks on the Assassination of MLK	mp3	Entire
08 Jun 1968	Edward Moore Kennedy	Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy	mp3	Entire
25 Jul 1969	Edward Moore Kennedy	"Chappaquiddick"	mp3	Short Excerpt
03 Nov 1969	Richard Milhous Nixon	"The Great Silent Majority"	mp3	Entire
13 Nov 1969	Spiro Theodore Agnew	"Television News Coverage"	mp3	Long Excerpt
30 Apr 1970	Richard Milhous Nixon	Cambodian Incursion Address	mp3	Entire
10 Aug 1970	Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm	"For the Equal Rights Amendment"

1971-1980
25 Jul 1974	Barbara Charline Jordan	Statement on the Articles of Impeachment	mp3	Entire
08 Aug 1974	Richard Milhous Nixon	Resignation Speech	mp3	Entire
09 Aug 1974	Gerald Rudolph Ford	Address on Taking the Oath of Office	mp3	Entire
08 Sep 1974	Gerald Rudolph Ford	National Address Pardoning Richard M. Nixon	mp3	Long Excerpt
12 Jul 1976	Barbara Charline Jordan	1976 DNC Keynote Address
15 Jul 1979	Jimmy Earl Carter	"A Crisis of Confidence"	mp3	Entire
12 Jul 1980	Edward Moore Kennedy	1980 DNC Address	mp3	Entire

1981-1990
20 Jan 1981	Ronald Wilson Reagan	First Inaugural Address	mp3	Entire
08 Mar 1983	Ronald Wilson Reagan	"The Evil Empire"	mp3	Entire
22 May 1983	Ursula Le Guin	"A Left-Handed Commencement Address"
03 Oct 1983	Edward Moore Kennedy	"Truth and Tolerance in America"	mp3	Entire
06 Jun 1984	Ronald Wilson Reagan	40th Anniversary of D-Day Address	mp3	Entire
17 Jul 1984	Jesse Louis Jackson	1984 DNC Address
17 Jul 1984	Mario Matthew Cuomo	1984 DNC Keynote Address	mp3	Entire
19 Jul 1984	Geraldine Anne Ferraro	Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech
13 Sep 1984	Mario Matthew Cuomo	"Religious Belief and Public Morality"
28 Jan 1986	Ronald Wilson Reagan	Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address	mp3	Entire
12 Jun 1987	Ronald Wilson Reagan	Brandenburg Gate Address	mp3	Entire
18 Jul 1988	Dorothy Ann Willis Richards	1988 DNC Keynote Address	mp3	Entire
20 Jul 1988	Jesse Louis Jackson	1988 DNC Address
01 Jun 1990	Barbara Pierce Bush	1990 Wellesley College Commencement Address	mp3	Entire

1991-2000
11 Oct 1991	Anita Faye Hill	Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee	mp3	Entire
14 Jul 1992	Elizabeth Glaser	1992 DNC Address	mp3	Entire
19 Aug 1992	Mary Fisher	"A Whisper of AIDS"	mp3	Entire
23 Apr 1995	William Jefferson Clinton	Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address	mp3	Entire
05 Sep 1995	Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton	Women's Rights Are Human Rights	mp3	Entire
12 Apr 1999	Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel	"The Perils of Indifference"	mp3	Entire