American Rhetoric

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

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

The night before he was assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his prophetic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

Listen to Lincoln's most famous speech. American Rhetoric offers the speech in four different versions, one narrated by musician Johnny Cash, and the others read by actors Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterson, and Jim Getty.

Listen to this truly inspiring address by legendary American college basketball coach Jimmy Valvano, delivered just a few months before he died of cancer.

Listen to this famous speech delivered by Ronald Reagan during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.

"If we do not stop our war against the people of Vietnam immediately, the world will be left with no other alternative..."

"Were we to come out here discussing religion, we’d have too many differences from the outstart and we could never get together."

Listen to General Dwight D. Eisenhower's D-Day Pre-Invasion Address delivered on the morning of June 6th, 1944. This short, inspiring message was delivered to 175,000 soldiers of the allied expeditionary force.

"I can therefore allow my mind, with the experience of a lifetime, to play over the problems which beset us on the morrow of our absolute victory in arms, and to try to make sure with what strength I have that what has been gained with so much sacrifice and suffering shall be preserved for the future glory and safety of mankind."