Words of a century : the top 100 American speeches, 1900-1999 / [edited by] Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-660) and indexes.

Alternate Table of Contents: Speeches by Rank -- The Century Begins -- Acres of Diamonds / Russell Conwell -- Against Imperialism / William Jennings Bryan -- The Man with the Muckrake / Theodore Roosevelt -- The Issue / Eugene V. Debs -- First Inaugural Address / Woodrow Wilson -- World War I, Dissent, and Woman Suffrage -- The Fundamental Principle of a Republic / Anna Howard Shaw -- The Crisis / Carrie Chapman Catt -- War Message / Woodrow Wilson -- Address to the Jury / Emma Goldman -- Free Speech in Wartime / Robert M. La Follette -- Address to the Congress of the United States / Carrie Chapman Catt -- The Fourteen Points / Woodrow Wilson -- Statement to the Court / Eugene V. Debs -- For the League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- Final Address for the League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- Now We Can Begin / Crystal Eastman -- The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression -- Plea for Leopold and Loeb / Clarence Darrow -- The Children's Era / Margaret Sanger -- Address to the Commonwealth Club / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- First Inaugural Address / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The Banking Crisis / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Every Man a King / Huey P. Long -- Share Our Wealth / Huey P. Long -- Labor and the Nation / John L. Lewis -- Farewell to Baseball / Lou Gehrig -- World War II and the Emergence of the Cold War -- The Arsenal of Democracy / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The Four Freedoms / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- War Message / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The Truman Doctrine / Harry S. Truman -- The Marshall Plan / George C.Marshall -- The Sunshine of Human Rights / Hubert H. Humphrey -- The Struggle for Human Rights / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Eleanor Roosevelt -- McCarthyism, Korea, and the Nuclear Era -- Declaration of Conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature / William Faulkner -- Old Soldiers Never Die / Douglas MacArthur -- Let's Talk Sense to the American People / Adlai E. Stevenson -- Checkers / Richard M. Nixon -- Statement at the Smith Act Trial / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Atoms for Peace / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Defense of Fred Fisher at the Army-McCarthy Hearings / Joseph Welch -- The Age of Camelot -- Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association / John F. Kennedy -- Farewell Address / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy -- Television and the Public Interest / Newton N. Minow -- Duty, Honor, Country / Douglas MacArthur -- Address on the Cuban Missile Crisis / John F. Kennedy -- Speech at American University / John F. Kennedy -- Civil Rights: A Moral Issue / John F. Kennedy -- Ich Bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy -- Race, Poverty, and Dissension -- I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Message to the Grassroots / Malcolm X. -- Let Us Continue / Lyndon B. Johnson -- The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X. -- The Great Society / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination / Barry Goldwater -- A Time for Choosing / Ronald Reagan -- An End to History / Mario Savio -- We Shall Overcome / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Day of Affirmation / Robert F. Kennedy -- Black Power / Stokely Carmichael -- Vietnam and Other Discontents -- Speech at Riverside Church / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Speech on Breaking His Fast / Cesar Chavez -- Address on Not Seeking Reelection / Lyndon B. Johnson -- I've Been to the Mountaintop / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. / Robert F. Kennedy -- Eulogy to Robert F. Kennedy / Edward M. Kennedy -- Chappaquiddick / Edward M. Kennedy -- The Great Silent Majority / Richard M. Nixon -- Television News Coverage / Spiro T. Agnew -- Address on the Cambodian Incursion / Richard M. Nixon -- For the Equal Rights Amendment / Shirley Chisholm -- Vietnam Veterans Against the War / John F. Kerry -- Watergate and Its Aftermath -- Statement on the Articles of Impeachment Against Richard M. Nixon / Barbara Jordan -- Address Resigning the Presidency / Richard M. Nixon -- Our Long National Nightmare Is Over / Gerald R. Ford -- Address on Pardoning Richard M. Nixon / Gerald R. Ford -- Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good? / Barbara Jordan -- Energy and the Crisis of Confidence / Jimmy Carter -- The Dream Shall Never Die / Edward M. Kennedy -- Conservatism, Liberalism, and the End of the Cold War -- First Inaugural Address / Ronald Reagan -- The Evil Empire / Ronald Reagan -- A Left-Handed Commencement Address / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Tolerance and Truth in America / Edward M. Kennedy -- Address on the Fortieth Anniversary of D-Day / Ronald Reagan -- A Tale of Two Cities / Mario Cuomo -- The Rainbow Coalition / Jesse Jackson -- Speech Accepting the Democratic Vice-Presidential Nomination / Geraldine Ferraro -- Religious Belief and Public Morality / Mario Cuomo -- Address on the Challenger Explosion / Ronald Reagan -- Speech at the Brandenburg Gate / Ronald Reagan -- Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention / Ann Richards -- Common Ground and Common Sense / Jesse Jackson -- The 1990s -- Choices and Change / Barbara Bush -- Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee / Anita F. Hill -- AIDS: A Personal Story / Elizabeth Glaser -- A Whisper of AIDS / Mary Fisher -- Speech for Victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing / Bill Clinton -- Women's Rights Are Human Rights / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- The Perils of Indifference / Elie Wiesel.