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Kofi Annan

• Kofi Annan's Acceptance Speech for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize

Aristophanes

• Aristophanes' Speech from Plato's Symposium

Jello Biafra

• Jello Biafra's Speech to the Green Party, Election Year 2000

Bono

• Bono's Commencement Speech for the Harvard Class of 2001

George W. Bush

• George W. Bush's acceptance speech for the Republican Party presidential nomination
• December 13, 2000 : the victory speech of George W. Bush
• President George W. Bush to the 300th graduating class of Yale University
• George W. Bush's Statement at the March for Life
• President Bush's address, September 20, 2001
• George W. Bush's address to the UN General Assembly: September 12, 2002
• Remarks by President George W. Bush at Islamic Center of Washington D.C.
• President George Bush Outlines Iraqi Attack: October 7, 2002
• George W Bush's Iraq Press Conference, March 6, 2003
• George W. Bush's address, the War on Iraq has begun - March 19, 2003
• President George W. Bush' speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003
• President George W. Bush's address to the nation: September 07, 2003
• President George W. Bush's speech to the Australian Houses of Parliament
• President George W. Bush Addresses Nation on the Capture of Saddam Hussein, December 14, 2003

Robert Byrd

• Robert Byrd's "A Haunting Silence" speech
• Robert Byrd's "The Emperor Has No Clothes" speech

James Cameron

• James Cameron Mars speech

Jimmy Carter

• President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Lecture

Fidel Castro

• History Will Absolve Me
• Fidel Castro's Response to the September 11th Attacks
• Fidel Castro's speech to the Non Aligned Movement summit

Neville Chamberlain

• Neville Chamberlain's "Peace for our time" speech

Winston Churchill

• Winston Churchill's October 5, 1938 speech to the House of Commons

Robin Cook

• Robin Cook's resignation speech

Mario Cuomo

• Mario Cuomo Speech at the Democratic National Convention, 1984

Edward VIII

• The Abdication Speech of Edward VIII

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• President Eisenhower's 'Military-Industrial Complex' Speech

T.S. Eliot

• T.S. Eliot's Acceptance Speech for the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature

Gerald Ford

• Gerald Ford's Pardon of Nixon

Al Franken

• Al Franken's 2002 Harvard Class Day Address

Tenzin Gyatso

• Tenzin Gyatso's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

George VI

• George VI's speech on the outbreak of war with Germany
• George VI's VE Day Speech
• George VI's VJ Day Speech

Mikhail Gorbachev

• Gorbachev's 'Address to the Soviet Citizens'

Al Gore

• December 13, 2000 : the concession speech of Al Gore

Che Guevara

• Che Guevara's Speech to the Afro-Asian Conference

Vaclav Havel

• Vaclav Havel's address to the US Congress, 21 February 1990

Patrick Henry

• Give me Liberty or give me death

Alfred Hitchcock

• Alfred Hitchcock's acceptance speech for his 1967 Irving G. Thalberg award

Adolf Hitler

• Hitler's January 30, 1937 Speech to the Reichstag

Fritz Hollings

• Speech made by Sen Hollings on the floor of the Senate, 21 March 2002

Saddam Hussein

• Saddam Hussein's response to the United States attack, March 20, 2003

Jesse Jackson

• Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Speech at the 2000 DNC: Stay out of the Bushes

John F. Kennedy

• Kennedy's Address Regarding The Threat of Soviet Nuclear Capability in Cuba
• President Kennedy's Speech Regarding the Berlin Crisis
• President Kennedy's Civil Rights Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• I Have a Dream

Robert Koch

• Robert Koch's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech: The current state of the struggle against tuberculosis

Abraham Lincoln

• Right Makes Might
• The Emancipation Prolcamation (Technically not a speech, but very historically significant.)
• Gettysburg Address

George C. Marshall

• The Marshall Plan Speech

John McCain

• John McCain speech on Religious Right
• John McCain's Speech to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee
• John McCain's Commencement Speech to the VMI Class of 2001
• John McCain's Commencement Speech to the University of Pennsylvania Class of 2001
• Senator John McCain's Statement Concerning the Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center
• John McCain's Eulogy In Honor of Mark Bingham
• Opening Statement on Campaign Finance Reform by Senator John McCain
• Closing Statement on Campaign Finance Reform by Senator John McCain
• John McCain's Forrestal Lecture Series Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy
• Senator John McCain's Speech at the Republican Convention, 2004

V. M. Molotov

• Molotov's speech after Finnish Winter War

Robert S. McNamara

• Robert McNamara's Mutual Deterrence Speech

Ralph Nader

• Ralph Nader's acceptance speech for the Green Party presidential nomination
• Ralph Nader's acceptance speech for the Green Party presidential nomination (2)

Richard Nixon

• Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech
• Nixon's "Great Silent Majority" Speech
• Richard Nixon's resignation speech

Barack Obama

• Barack Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention, 2004

Conan O'Brien

• Conan O'Brien's Commencement Speech for the Harvard Class of 2000

James A. Parker

• Final Comments from Judge Parker to Wen Ho Lee, part one
• Final Comments from Judge Parker to Wen Ho Lee, part two

George S. Patton

• Patton's Speech to the Third Army

Ron Paul

• Rep. Ron Paul's speech to the House of Representatives - Is America a Police State?

Ayn Rand

• The Age of Mediocrity (Part I)
• The Age of Mediocrity (Part II)
• The Age of Mediocrity (Part III)

Ronald Reagan

• Ronald Reagan's Goldwater Speech
• President Reagan's Evil Empire Speech
• President Reagan's Speech Regarding SDI/Star Wars

Janet Reno

• Janet Reno Speech on 4/1/2000

Scott Ritter

• Scott Ritter's Veterans' Day speech on Iraq

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• President Roosevelt's speech declaring war on Japan

Sunera Thobani

• Sunera Thobani's Speech

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

• Pierre Elliott Trudeau's speech of October 16, 1970

Harry S Truman

• Truman Doctrine
• President Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress

George Washington

• Washington's Newburgh Address

William Young

• Richard Reid (Speech given by Judge Young at Reid's sentencing)

Frank Zappa

• Frank Zappa: Statement To Congress September 19, 1985

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Inaugural Addresses

• George Washington's Inaugural Addresses
  
• Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Address
• Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
• James Madison's Inaugural Addresses
  
• Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address
• Andrew Jackson's First Inaugural Address
• Andrew Jackson's Second Inaugural Address
• Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address
• James Knox Polk's Inaugural Address
  
• Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Address
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
• President Kennedy's Inaugural Address
  
• Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address
• Richard Nixon's Second Inaugural Address
  
• George W. Bush's 2001 Inaugural Address

• Chen Shui Bian's Inaugural Address
• Chen Shui Bian's Inaugural Address - Chinese
  

State of the Union Addresses

Debates

• The Webster - Hayne Debate
• The First Nixon-Kennedy Debate
• The Second Nixon-Kennedy Debate
• The Third Nixon-Kennedy Debate
• The Fourth Nixon-Kennedy Debate
• The Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate"
• 1992 United States Vice Presidential Debate

Speeches by (or about) Noders

• Commemorative Speech for US Veterans
• My graduation speech
• Salutatorian speech
• Dizzy and Katyana's Wedding Ceremony
• The Best Man's Speech At Dizzy and Katyana's Wedding
• My Best Man's speech, at my best friend's wedding
• Address to Malkin Bowl
• The Science of Oneness