Speaker Name Index

Busse Library provides this website as a resource for students and faculty seeking the locations of famous American speeches.

The Speaker-Name Index offers the ranked results of the project with links from names to the master list, which then displays full website and print resources.

This project is based upon the 1999 "Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century," a project of the communications departments of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Texas A&M University.

A full ranking of all the speeches and their texts can be found as the "Top 100 Speeches" at AmericanRhetoric.com.

Speaker Index: Name, Rank, Speech Title, and Date.

Agnew, Spiro. (#50) "Television News Coverage." 13 November 1969.

Bryan, William Jennings. (#45) Speech Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination. 8 August 1900. ("Against Imperialism")

Bush, Barbara. (#47) Commencement Speech at Wellesley College. 1 June 1990.("Choices and Change")

Carmichael, Stokely. (#65) "Black Power." October 1966.

Carter, Jimmy. (#90) Address to the Nation on Energy and National Crisis. 15 July 1979. ("A Crisis of Confidence")

Catt, Carrie Chapman.

--(#68) "The Crisis." 7 September 1916.
--(#75) "Address to the United States Congress." November 1917.

Chavez, Cesar. (#88) "Speech on Ending His Fast." 10 March 1968.

Chisholm, Shirley. (#93) "For the Equal Rights Amendment." 10 August 1970.

Clinton, Hillary Rodham. (#35) Address to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women. 5 September 1995. ("Women's Rights are Human Rights")

Clinton, Bill. (#92) Speech at the Prayer Service for Victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing. 23 April 1995.

Conwell, Russell. (#24) "Acres of Diamonds." 1900-1925.

Cuomo, Mario.

(#11) Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention. 17 July 1984. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
(#61) "Religious Belief and Public Morality." 13 September 1984.

Darrow, Clarence. (#23) Plea for Mercy at the Trial of Leopold and Loeb. 22-23, 25 August 1924.

Debs, Eugene V.

(#34) Statement to the Court. 14 September 1918.
(#82) "The Issue." 23 May 1908.

Eastman, Crystal. (#85) "Now We Can Begin." September-October 1920.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

(#18) Farewell Address. 17 January 1961.
(#36) "Atoms for Peace." 8 December 1953.

Faulkner, William. (#33) Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature. 10 December 1950.

Ferraro, Geraldine. (#58) Speech Accepting the Democratic Vice-Presidential Nomination. 19 July 1984.

Fisher, Mary. (#52) Speech to the Republican National Convention. 19 August 1992. ("A Whisper of AIDS")

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. (#89) Statement at the Smith Act Trial. 2 February 1953.

Ford, Gerald.

(#87) Address on Taking the Oath of Office. 9 August 1974. ("Our Long National Nightmare is Over")
(#96) Address to the Nation on Pardoning Richard M. Nixon. 8 September 1974.

Gehrig, Lou. (#73) Farewell to Baseball. 4 July 1939.

Glaser, Elizabeth. (#81) Speech at the Democratic National Convention. 14 July 1992. ("AIDS: A Personal Story")

Goldman, Emma. (#67) Address to the Jury. 9 July 1917.

Goldwater, Barry. (#64) Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination. 16 July 1964. ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice")

Hill, Anita. (#71) Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee. 11 October 1991.

Humphrey, Hubert. (#66) Speech at the Democratic National Convention. 14 July 1948. ("The Sunshine of Human Rights")

Jackson, Jesse.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Jordan, Barbara.

(#5) Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention. 12 July 1976
(#13) Statement on the Articles of Impeachment. 25 July 1974.

Kennedy, Edward.

(#55) "Truth and Tolerance in America." 3 October 1983.
(#62) Televised Statement. 25 July 1969. ("Chappaquiddick")
(#70) Eulogy to Robert Kennedy. 8 June 1968.
(#76) Speech at the Democratic National Convention. 12 August 1980. ("The Dream Shall Never Die")

Kennedy, John F.

(#2) Inaugural Address. 20 January 1961.
(#9) Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. 12 September 1960.
(#22) "Ich bin ein Berliner." 26 June 1963.
(#37) American University Speech. 10 June 1963. (Commencement Address at the American University)
(#48) Address to the Nation on Civil Rights. 11 June 1963. ("A Moral Issue")
(#49) Address to the Nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis. 22 October 1962.

Kennedy, Robert F. (#17) Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4 April 1968.

King, Martin Luther,Jr.

(#1) "I Have a Dream." 28 August 1963.
(#15) "I've Been to the Mountaintop." 3 April 1968.
(#43) Speech at Riverside Church. 4 April 1967. ("A Time to Break Silence")

La Follette, Robert M. (#59) "Free Speech in Wartime." 6 October 1917.

Le Guin, Ursula.(#84) "A Left-Handed Commencement Address." 22 May 1983.

Lewis, John L. (#63) "Labor and the Nation." 3 September 1937. ("The Rights of Labor")

Long, Huey Pierce.

(#26) "Every Man a King." 23 February 1935.
(#86) Radio Broadcast. 7 March 1935. ("Share Our Wealth")

MacArthur, Douglas.

(#14) Farewell Address to Congress. 19 April 1951 ("Old Soldiers Never Die")
(#20) Farewell Address at the U.S. Military Academy. 12 May 1962. ("Duty, Honor, Country")

Malcolm X.

(#7) "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 April 1964.
(#91) "Message to the Grassroots." 10 November 1963.

Marshall, George C. (#54) "The Marshall Plan." 5 June 1947.

Minow, Newton W. (#69) "Television and the Public Interest." 9 May 1961. ("A Vast Wasteland")

Nixon, Richard M.

(#6) "My Side of the Story." 23 September 1952. ("Checkers")
(#21) Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam. 3 November 1969. ("The Great Silent Majority")
(#39) Address to the Nation Resigning the Presidency. 8 August 1974.
(#74) Address to the Nation on the Cambodian Incursion. 30 April 1970.

Reagan, Ronald.

(#8) Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster. 28 January 1986.
(#25) Televised Speech on Behalf of Barry Goldwater. 27 October 1964. ("A Time of Choosing")
(#29) Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. 8 March 1983. ("The Evil Empire")
(#30) First Inaugural Address. 20 January 1981.
(#60) Address at the U.S. Ranger Monument on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day. 6 June 1984.
(#94) Address at the Brandenburg Gate. 12 June 1987. ("Tear Down the Wall")

Richards, Ann. (#38) Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention. 18 July 1988.

Roosevelt, Eleanor.

(#57) "The Struggle for Human Rights. 28 September 1948
(#100) "Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights." 9 December 1948.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.

(#3) First Inaugural Address. 4 March 1933.
(#4) War Message. 8 December 1941. ("A Date which Will Live in Infamy")
(#28) "The Arsenal of Democracy." 29 December 1940.
(#31) First Fireside Chat. 12 March 1933. ("The Banking Crisis")
(#42) "The Four Freedoms." 6 January 1941.
(#78) Speech to the Commonwealth Club. 23 September 1932.

Roosevelt, Theodore. (#16) "The Man with the Muckrake." 14 April 1906.

Sanger, Margaret.

(#46) "A Moral Necessity for Birth Control." 1921-1922
(#83) The Children's Era. March 1925.

Savio, Mario.(#80) "An End to History." 2 December 1964.

Shaw, Anna Howard. (#27) "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic." 21 June 1915.

Smith, Margaret Chase. (#41) "Declaration of Conscience." 1 June 1950.

Stevenson, Adlai. (#56) Speech Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination. 26 July 1952. ("Let's Talk Sense to American People")

Terrell, Mary Church. (#44) "What it Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States." 10 October 1906.

Truman, Harry. (#32) Address to Congress on Greece and Turkey. 12 March 1947. ("The Truman Doctrine.")

Welch, Joseph. (#99) Defense of Fred Fisher at the Army-McCarthy Hearings. 9 June 1954. ("Have You No Sense of Decency?")

Wiesel, Elie. (#95) "The Perils of Indifference." 12 April 1999.

Wilson, Woodrow.

(#19) War Message. 2 April 1917. ("The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy")
(#40) "The Fourteen Points." 8 January 1918.
(#72) Final Address in Support of the League of Nations. 25 September 1919.
(#79) First Inaugural Address. 4 March 1913.
(#97) "For the League of Nations." 6 September 1919.

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