Speech Texts
1644 - Roger Williams:
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution
1735 - Andrew Hamilton:
Defense of Zenger
1741 - Jonathan Edwards:
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
1761 - James Otis:
Against the Writs of Assistance
1774 - John Hancock:
Boston Massacre Oration
1775 - Jonathan Boucher:
On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Nonresistance
1775 - John Dickinson:
Declaration on Taking Up Arms
1787 - James Wilson:
Speech in the Statehouse Yard
1788 - Patrick Henry:
Against Adopting the Federal Constitution
1788 -
James Madison
:
For Adoption of the Federal Constitution
1801 - Thomas Jefferson:
First Inaugural Address
1802 - John Leland:
The Rights of Conscience...
1825 -
Daniel Webster
:
Bunker Hill Monument Oration
1826 - Elias Boudinot:
An Address to the Whites
1834 - Albert Pike:
Fourth of July Address
1836 - Robert Rantoul:
Oration at Scituate
1837 - Wendell Phillips:
The Murder of Lovejoy
1838 -
Grimke Sisters
:
1850 - John C. Calhoun:
A Sectional Equilibrium
1851 - Sojourner Truth:
Ain't I a Woman?
1852 -
Frederick Douglass
:
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
1857 - Sam Houston:
Controlling Indians
1865 - Abraham Lincoln:
Second Inaugural Address
1872 - Victoria Woodhull:
National Suffrage Association
1876 -
Robert G. Ingersoll
1884 - Susan B. Anthony:
On Behalf of the Woman Suffrage Amendment
1892 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
The Solitude of Self
1895 -
Booker T. Washington
:
Atlanta Exposition Address
1896 - William Jennings Bryan:
The Cross of Gold
1898 - Albert Beveridge:
March of the Flag
1907 - Jeff Davis:
Cobweb Speech
1911 -
Emma Goldman
:
Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty
1913 - Kate Richards O'Hare:
War in Copper Country
1914 - Mary Harris Jones:
District 14 UMWA Convention
1917 - Robert LaFollette:
Free Speech in Wartime
1918 - Eugene Debs:
Canton, Ohio Speech
1924 -
Clarence Darrow
:
Leopold and Loeb Summation
1925 -
Margaret Sanger
:
The Children's Era
1935 - Huey Long:
Sharing Our Wealth
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