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Our friends at AmericanRhetoric.com have compiled the web's most complete listing of Obama's speeches on audio & video.

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered a speech which supported military action against the British. This stirring speech swayed the vote and was most likely the deciding factor in committing Virginia troops to fight the British.

This audio program offers speeches from a wide variety of thinkers and leaders. You will here important statements made by Philosophers, Religious Leaders, Royalty, Statesman civil rights advocates and more.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.

In this great speech delivered on March 14, 1968, less than a month before he was killed, Dr. King talks about the two Americas that are still very relevant to our modern times.

LearnOutLoud's Great American Presidents collects four biographies of some of America's most celebrated leaders.

And one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.

Listen to the classic muckraking novel about early 20th century immigrants in Chicago and their hardships working in the meatpacking plants.

This is a compilation of highlights of some of the most well-known speeches of modern times, spanning the years of 1940-1987.

From humble beginnings as a self-taught prairie lawyer, beloved U.S. President Abraham Lincoln rose to national leadership over a divided Nation during the American Civil War and kept the country together thanks in part to his unparalleled leadership capabilities.