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A List of Compelling Speeches and Essays

How to Evaluate an Argument

A Checklist for Evaluating an Argument

Susan B. Anthony 
On Women's Right to Vote (1873)

William Jennings Bryan
Imperialism 

Barbara Pierce Bush
Commencement Address at Wellesley College

Winston Churchill 
Blood, Sweat and Tears (1940)

Russell H. Conwell
Acres of Diamonds

Eugene Victor Debs
1918 Statement to the Court

Frederick Douglass 
The Hypocrisy of American Slavery (1852)

Elizabeth I of England
Against the Spanish Armada (1588)

William Cuthbert Faulkner
On Accepting the Nobel Prize (1950)

Mary Fisher
A Whisper of AIDS

Gerald R. Ford
Pardoning Richard Nixon (1974)

Mohandas Gandhi
An Open Letter to Hitler

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

Lou Gehrig 
Farewell to Yankee Fans (1939)

Patrick Henry 
Liberty or Death (1775)

Jesse Louis Jackson
1988 DNC Address

Lyndon Baines Johnson
"We Shall Overcome"

Barbara Charline Jordan
Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 
On Surrender to US Army (1877)

Edward Moore Kennedy
Truth and Tolerance in America

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Inaugural Address

Ich bin ein Berliner

  Robert Francis Kennedy
On the Death of Martin Luther King (1968)

Martin Luther King, Jr. 
I Have A Dream

Robert Marion La Follette
Free Speech in Wartime

Abraham Lincoln - 
The Gettysburg Address (1863)

Nelson Mandela 
I am Prepared to Die (1964)

Ho Chi Mihn 
Declaration of Independence

Richard Milhous Nixon
Resigning the Presidency (1974)

Pope John Paul II 
At Israel's Holocaust Memorial (2000)

Ronald Wilson Reagan
Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address

The Evil Empire

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First Inaugural Address:  The Depression

First Inaugural Address (1933)

Pearl Harbor Address to the NatiON

The Four Freedoms

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
The Struggle for Human Rights

William Shakespeare 
St. Crispin Speech from Henry V

Margaret Chase Smith
Declaration of Conscience

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 
The Destructive Male (1868)

Mark Twain 
Advice to Youth

George Washington 
Prevents the Revolt of his Officers (1783)

E. B. White 
A Member of a Party of One

Eliezer ("Elie") Wiesel
The Perils of Indifference
 
 
 

 

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