Powhatan, Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy (1609): To Captain John Smith.

Big Mouth, Onondaga Chief (1684): To De la Barre, Governor of Canada.

Andrew Hamilton (1735): In Defense of John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press.

Canasatego, Onondaga Chief (1744): "We Will Make Men of Them".

John Hancock (1774): On the Fourth Anniversary of the Boston Massacre.

Logan, Mingo Chief (1774): To Lord Dunmore.

Patrick Henry (1775): "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death".

Solomon, Stockbridge Chief (1775): "We Have Ever Been True Friends".

Samuel Adams (1776): To the Continental Congress.

Benjamin Franklin (1787): To the Constitutional Convention.

Jonathan Smith (1788): To the Massachusetts Convention.

George Washington (1796): "Observe Good Faith and Justice towards All Nations".

Thomas Jefferson (1801): First Inaugural Address.

Red Jacket, Seneca Chief (1805): "We Never Quarrel about Religion".

Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief (1811): "Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws".

Pushmataha, Choctaw Chief (1824): Welcome to Lafayette.

Daniel Webster (1825): Bunker Hill Oration.

Black Hawk, Sauk Chief (1832): "Farewell to Black Hawk".

Sam Houston (1836): "Remember the Alamo!"

Elijah Lovejoy (1837): In Defense of a Free Press.

Angelina Grimke (1838): "What Has the North to Do with Slavery?"

Henry Highland Garnet (1843): The Call to Rebellion.

Lewis Richardson (1846): "My Grave Shall Be Made in Free Soil".

Thomas Corwin (1847): Against War with Mexico.

Frederick Douglass (1847): "If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot".

Henry Clay (1850): A Call for a Measure of Compromise.

Sojourner Truth (1851): "If You Have Woman's Rights, Give Them to Her".

Frederick Douglass (1852): "What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854): On the Fugitive Slave Law.

Seattle, Duwamish Chief (1854): "We Will Dwell Apart and in Peace".

Lucy Stone (1855): "A Disappointed Woman".

Abraham Lincoln (1858): "A House Divided".

Stephen Douglas (1858): Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate.

John Brown (1859): To the Court after Sentencing.

William Lloyd Garrison (1859): On the Death of John Brown.

Jefferson Davis (1861): Farewell to the Senate.

Abraham Lincoln (1863): The Gettysburg Address.

Abraham Lincoln (1865): "With Malice toward None, with Charity for All".

Henry M. Turner (1868): "I Hold That I Am a Member of This Body".

George Graham Vest (1870): Eulogy on the Dog.

Cochise, Chiricahua Apache Chief (1872): We Will Remain at Peace with Your People Forever".

Susan B. Anthony (1873): "Are Women Persons?"

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce (1877): "I Will Fight No More Forever"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1892): "The Solitude of Self".

William Jennings Bryan (1896): "A Cross of Gold".

Russell Conwell (late 1890s): "Acres of Diamonds".

Harry Gladstone (1898): To the Machine Tenders Union.

Mother Jones (1901): To the United Mine Workers of America.

Florence Kelley (1905): "Freeing the Children from Toil".

Mark Twain (1906): "In Behalf of Simplified Spelling".

Theodore Roosevelt (1910): Citizenship in a Republic.

Rose Schneiderman (1911): On the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire.

John Jay Chapman (1912): The Coatesville Address.

Stephen S. Wise (1914): Tribute to Lincoln.

Woodrow Wilson (1915): "An Oath of Allegiance to a Great Ideal".

Anna Howard Shaw (1915): The Fundamental Principle of a Republic.

Woodrow Wilson (1917): "The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy".

Emma Goldman (1917): "First Make Democracy Safe in America".

Eugene V. Debs (1918): "While There Is a Lower Class, I Am in It".

Clarence Darrow (1924): In Defense of Leopold and Loeb.

Alfred E. Smith (1928): "Anything Un-American Cannot Live in the Sunlight".

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933): "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself".

Lou Gehrig (1939): "The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth".

Harold Ickes (1941): "What Constitutes an American?"

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941): "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy".

Learned Hand (1944): "The Spirit of Liberty".

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1944): "The Eyes of the World Are upon You".

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944): The Fala Address.

Douglas MacArthur (1944): "People of the Philippines: I Have Returned".

Roland Gittelsohn (1947): Eulogy at the Marine Corps Cemetery.

Albert Einstein (1947): To the United Nations.

Margaret Chase Smith (1950): "The Four Horsemen of Calumny".

William Faulkner (1950): "I Decline to Accept the End of Man".

Pearl Buck (1951): Forbidden to Speak at Cardozo High School Graduation.

Charlotta Bass (1952): "Let My People Go".

Richard Nixon (1952): The Checkers Speech.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1955): There Comes a Time When People Get Tired".

Langston Hughes (1957): "On the Blacklist All Our Lives".

Roy Wilkins (1957): "The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back".

John F. Kennedy (1961): "Ask What You Can Do for Your Country".

Douglas MacArthur (1962): "Duty, Honor, Country".

John F. Kennedy (1963): "Let Them Come to Berlin".

Martin Luther King Jr. (1963): "I Have a Dream".

Charles B. Morgan Jr. (1963): "Four Little Girls Were Killed"

Earl Warren (1963): Eulogy for President John F. Kennedy.

Malcolm X (1964): "The Ballot or the Bullet".

Barry Goldwater (1964): "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice".

Mario Savio (1964): "History Has Not Ended".

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1965): "We Shall Overcome".

Adlai Stevenson (1965): To the United Nations.

William Sloane Coffin Jr. (1967): The Anvil of Individual Conscience".

Cesar Chavez (1968): "God Help Us to Be Men!"

J. William Fulbright (1968): "The Focus Is Vietnam".

Martin Luther King Jr. (1968): "I' ve Been to the Mountaintop".

Robert F. Kennedy (1968): On the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Shirley Chisholm (1969): "The Business of America Is War".

Frank James (1970): On the 350th Anniversary of Plymouth.

Archibald Cox (1971): "The Price of Liberty to Speak the Truth".

Barbara Jordan (1974): "My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole".

Richard Nixon (1974): "I Shall Resign the Presidency".

Silvio Conte (1975): "I Must 'Raise a Beef' about This Bill".

Dr Seuss (1977): Commencement Address at Lake Forest College.

Esther Cohen (1981): At the Liberators Conference.

Samantha Smith (1983): "Look Around and See Only Friends".

Ronald Reagan (1986): To the Nation on the Challenger Disaster.

Thurgood Marshall (1987): On the Bicentennial of the Constitution.

Ronald Reagan (1987): "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"

Jesse Jackson (1988): To the Democratic National Convention.

Daniel Inouye (1993): To the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team.

Cal Ripken Jr. (1995): To His Fans.

Charles S. Robb (2000): "They Died for That Which Can Never Burn".

Appendix: To the Young Speaker.

Permissions.

Photo Credits.

Index of Speakers.

Index of Themes.