Addison Trail Library Catalog

Willowbrook High School Library Catalog
Speeches are scattered throughout the library's collections. To find them, use the school catalogs do a subject search "speeches."

Chronological List of Address, Speeches and Letters  

1600s

Powhatan to Captain John Smith, Speech 1609 

Winthrop, John" On Liberty” 1645*  @@@

1750s

Canasatego, Chief Onondaga, "On Colonization", 1744 

John Dickinson: Letter, “Letter II from a Pennsylvania Farmer” 1767*  @@@

1775s

Adams, Samuel,  “American Independence” August 1, 1776*  @@@

Banneker, Benjamin, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, about the statement “All Men are Created Equal,” August 19, 1791** (Gale)  

Dickinson, John,  “The Declaration on Taking up Arms,” July 6, 1775* @@@

Franklin, Benjamin,  “Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution,” 1787*  @@@

Franklin, Benjamin,  “Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy,” 1787* @@@

Hancock, John,  “Boston Massacre Oration,” March 5, 1774* @@@

Otis, James, Jr.,  "Speech against the Writs of Assistance," February 23, 1761* @@@

Washington, George, "Farewell Address," Sept 17, 1796 *  @@@

Washington, George,  "First Inaugural Address," April 30, 1789 * @@@

1800s

Black Hawk, Sauk Chief, “Farewell to Black Hawk,” 1832

Calhoun, John C., “Slavery a Positive Good,” February 6, 1837*  @@@

Grimke, Angelina, “What Has the North to Do with Slavery?” 1838*   

Jackson, Andrew,  Proclamation to the People of South Carolina, December 10, 1832* 

Jackson, Andrew, Seventh Annual Message to Congress (removal of southern Indians to Indian Territory), December 7, 1835 (Gale)   

Jefferson, Thomas, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801* @@@

Jefferson, Thomas,  Letter on the Importance of New Orleans to Robert R. Livingston, April 18, 1802* (DOC1 189)  

Lovejoy, Elijah, “In Defense of a Free Press,” 1837 

Madison, James, War Message, June 1, 1812

Monroe, James,  7^th Annual Message to Congress, December 2, 1823* (DOC1) (Hurd 59)  

Phillips, Wendell,  “Eulogy for Elijah Lovejoy,” December 8, 1837* (Hurd 74)  

Polk, James K.,  Message on War with Mexico, May 11, 1846 *  @@@

Red Jacket, “We Too Have Religion,” 1805 (Hurd 57)  

Tecumseh, “Sleep No Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws,” 1811  

Webster,  Daniel, “Bunker Hill Oration,” 1825  

1850s

Anthony, Susan B., “Are Women Persons?” (delivered in all postal districts of Monroe County N.Y.), 1873  

Barton, Clara,  Letter to her cousin Vira on the eve of the Battle of Fredericksburg during the Civil War, December 12, 1862*

Brown, John,  Last Speech, November 2, 1859* (DOC1 361)  

Buchanan, James,  Fourth Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1860

Clay, Henry, “A Call for a Measure of Compromise,” 1850 

Cochise, Chiricahua Apache Chief, “We Will Remain at Peace with Your People Forever,” 1872 (McIntire)  

Custer, George Armstrong,  Letter to his sister Ann about a memorable scouting mission during Civil War, March 11, 1862 (War 64) 

Davis, Jefferson,  First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861*  @@@

Davis, Jefferson, Last Message to the People of the Confederacy, April 4, 1865

Davis, Jefferson,  Message to the Confederate Congress, April 29, 1861 (DOC1 389) 

Douglass, Frederick, “If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot,” 1847 (McIntire) 

Douglas, Stephen A., Opening Speech at the 7^th Joint Debate, Alton, IL, October 15, 1858 (DOC1 351) 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “On the Fugitive Slave Law,”  1854  

Garrison, William Lloyd,  “On the Death of John Brown,” 1859

Garrison, William Lloyd, “The Governing Passion of My Soul,” April 14, 1865*  @@@

Johnson, Andrew,  Second Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1866

Lincoln, Abraham -Douglas Debate Opening Speech at the 2^nd Joint Debate, Freeport, IL, August 27, 1858 (DOC1 348)  

Lincoln, Abraham, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, House Divided Speech, June 17, 1858

Lincoln, Abraham,  Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865*  @@@

McClellan, General George,  Letter to Lincoln regarding an Outline for War, July 7, 1862

Seattle, Duwamish Chief, “We Will Dwell Apart and in Peace,” 1854  

Seward, William,  “The Irrepressible Conflict,” October 25, 1858* @@@

Seward, William, Letter to Lincoln about averting the Civil War, April 1, 1861 (DOC1 392)  

Seward, William, Letter to Adams regarding the French in Mexico, March 3, 1862 (DOC1 424) 

Sherman, General William T.,  Letter to Annie Gilman Bowen the only pro-Union member of a secessionist family-maintained a friendly correspondence with Sherman during the war., June 30, 1864 (War 101) 

Sojourner Truth, “If You Have Woman’s Rights, Give Them to Her” (“Ain’t I a Woman?” speech), 1851

Stone, Lucy, “A Disappointed Woman,” 1855

Wood, Mayor Fernando,  Recommendation for the Secession of New York City, January 6, 1861  

1875s

Addams, Jane,  “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,” 1892* 

Arthur, President Chester A.,  First Annual Message (regarding Indian Affairs), December 6, 1881**

Bloomer, Amelia “Woman’s Right to the Ballot,” 1895* @@@

Bryan, William Jennings  "Cross of Gold," July 8, 1896*  @@@

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce, “I Will Fight No  Forever,” 1877

Lodge, Henry Cabot, “Americanism Speech—Warning against Communism,” December 21, 1888 (Hurd 141) 

McKinley, William, War Message with Spain, April 11, 1898 (Gale) 

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, “Solitude of Self,” 1892

Washington, Booker T., speaks at the Cotton State Exposition, Atlanta, GA, September 18, 1895

1900s

Anthony, Susan B.,  Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton regarding the next generation of suffragists, October 1902 (Letters 183)  

Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah Beveridge), “The Philippine Question,” January 9, 1900

Bryan William,Jennings, Acceptance of Democratic Nomination Condemnation of Philippine Policy, August 8, 1900  

DuBois, W.E.B., Address to the “Men of Niagra,” August 16, 1906

Kelley, Florence, speaks "On Child Labor and Woman Suffrage," July 22, 1905

Mark Twain, (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), “The Defense of General Funston," (a satire), February 22, 1902  

McKinley, William, opens the Pan-American Exposition, September 5, 1901 

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) speaks to Militant Coal Miners, West Virginia Capital, July 22, 1905

Mother Jones Letter to Theodore Roosevelt, regarding child labor, July 30, 1903 (Letters 186) 

Roosevelt, Theodore, “Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1905*  @@@

Roosevelt, Theodore, “The Man with the Muck Rake,” April 14, 1906

Terrell, Mary Church, “What it Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States,” October 10, 1906

Washington, Booker T "Speech to Atlanta Cotton States", October 1906

Wells-Barnett,  Ida B., Address to the NAACP against lynching, 1909 (Carroll 22) 

White, George H., "Farewell Address to Congress", January 29, 1901

1910s

Addams, Jane, Letter to Woodrow Wilson regarding preparing for war instead of advocating peace, October 29, 1915 (War 125) 

Addams, Jane, “Why Women Should Vote,” 1915*  @@@

Borah, William Edgar, speaks out against the League of Nations, November 19, 1919 (Hurd 190)

Catt, Carrie Chapman,  “Address to the United States Congress,” November 1917** (Carroll 39) (Rhetoric #75)  

Debs, Eugene, "The Canton, Ohio Speech," June 16, 1918*  @@@

Goldman, Emma,  Address to the Jury, July 9, 1917 (GOS) 

LaFollette, Robert,  (Fightin' Bob) "Defends free speech in wartime in front of Congress", October 6, 1917

Lodge, Henry Cabot,  Speaks out Against the League of Nations, August 12, 1919

Pershing, General John, Letter to his son regarding the war, October 10, 1918 (War 140)

Schneiderman, Rose, “On the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire,” 1911** (Carroll 32) 

Shaw, Anna Howard ,  “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic,” June 21, 1915 (GOS)

Wilson, Woodrow,  "Messages to Congress regarding Mexico", August 27, 1913 and April 20, 1914 (DOC2 87 & 91)

Wilson, Woodrow, "Declares War on Germany", April 2, 1917

Wilson, Woodrow, Address to Congress, “Fourteen Points” January 8, 1918 @@@

1920s-1930s

Coolidge, Calvin, "Inaugural Address", March 4, 1925

Coughlin, Charles Edward,  declares “Roosevelt and Ruin,” June 19, 1936

Darrow, Clarence,  Mercy for Leopold and Loeb", July 31, 1924* @@@

Eastman, Crystal,  “Now We Can Begin,” Sept-October 1920  

Einstein, Albert, Letter to Franklin Roosevelt regarding warning about the Nazis, August 2, 1939 (Century 252)

Garvey, Marcus (Moziah) (Jr.), "If you can believe the negro has a soul" 1921

Gehrig, Lou, “Farewell to Baseball,” July 4, 1939 (Rhetoric #73)

Harding, Warren G.  Calls for a “Return to Normalcy,” May 14, 1920

Hoover, Herbert,  Campaign speech “Rugged Individualism & Abolition of Poverty,” October 22, 1928

Keller, Helen, Endorses Communism and the Russian Revolution, December 31, 1920  (Carrol 67)

Long, Huey  Describes “Share the Wealth,” February 23, 1934, 

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,  “First Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1933*   @@@

Roosevelt, Franklin D., "First Fireside Chat" on the banking crisis, March 12, 1933

Sanger, Margaret,  The Children's Era  delivered in New York, NY, March 1925

Sanger, Margaret, “A Moral Necessity for Birth Control,” delivered several times, 1921-1922 (Rhetoric #46)

Smith, Alfred E., “Anything Un-American Cannot Live in the Sunlight,” 1928

1940s

Buck, Pearl, “Address at Howard University—Fight Fascism at Home and Abroad,” June 5, 1942 

Einstein, Albert, “To the United Nations…” 1947

Ickes, Harold,  (Also known as: Harold LeClair Ickes, Honest Harold, Harold Le Clair Ickes) Calls for What is an American, May 18, 1941

Lewis, John L., Head of the Miners Union, Defends Coal Miners before Congress, Additional Background, April 3, 1947

Lindbergh, Charles, Defends Isolationism, April 23, 1941

Marshall, George C., “The Marshall Plan,” June 5, 1947

MacArthur, Douglas, “People of the Philippines, I Have Returned,” 1944

Oppenheimer, J. Robert,  “Do not Forget Morality in the Pursuit of Scientists,” November 2, 1945 (Carroll 151)

Robinson, Jackie, (Also known as: Jackie Robinson, John Roosevelt Robinson), Address to the House Un-American Activities Committee, July 18, 1949 (HIST - Audio) (Carroll 169) 

Roosevelt, Eleanor,  "Defends Civil Liberties to the ACLU", March 14, 1940

Roosevelt, Eleanor, “The Struggle for Human Rights,” September 28, 1948 

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,  “The Arsenal of Democracy,” December 29, 1940

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,  Declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941

Roosevelt, Franklin D., State of the Union “Four Freedoms” Lend-Lease speech, January 6, 1941

Truman, Harry S.,  Radio address announcing Hiroshima bombing, August 6, 1945 (Carroll 147)

Truman, Harry S.,  “Do-Nothing” Congress", October 7, 1948

Truman, Harry S.,  Address to Congress on Greece and Turkey, March 12, 1947

1950s

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,  “Atoms for Peace,” December 8, 1953

Eisenhower, Dwight D., address on the Situation in Little Rock, September 24, 1957 (Gale)

Eisenhower, Dwight D., “Domino Effect Speech,” April 7, 1954

Faulkner, William, “Speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature,” December 10, 1950

Hughes, Langston, “On the Blacklist All Our Lives,” 1957 (McIntire)

Kerouac, Jack, “Beat and Its Beginnings—Hunter College address,” 1958 (Carroll 210)

McCarthy, Joseph,  “I Hold in My Hands…” Wheeling, WV Speech, February 9, 1950 (Carroll 173)

MacArthur, Douglas,  “Old Soldiers Never Die…” April 19, 1951 (Hurd 293) (Rhetoric #14)

Nixon, Richard,  “Checker’s Speech,” September 23, 1952 (Carroll 190) (Rhetoric #6)

Smith, Margaret Chase, “Declaration of Conscience,” June 1, 1950 (Carroll 176) (Rhetoric #41)

Stevenson, Adlai, “Let’s Talk Sense to the American People,” July 26, 1952 (Hurd 302) (Rhetoric #56)

Welch, Joseph, Defense of Fred Fisher at the Army-McCarthy Hearings, June 9, 1954 (Rhetoric #99)

Wilkins, Roy,  “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back,” 1957 (McIntire)

1960s

Carmichael, Stokely,  Berkely Speech-“Black Power,” October 1966 (Rhetoric #65)

Chavez, Cesar, “Speech - God Help Us Be Men!” 1968 (Rhetoric # 88) (McIntire)

Chavez, Cesar, Letter to E.L. Barr, Jr., regarding unfair labor practices for farm workers, Good Friday, 1969 (Letters 228)

Chisholm, Shirley,  “People and Peace, Not Profits and War,” March 16, 1969 (Carroll 279)

Chisholm, Shirley,  Speaks for the Equal Rights Amendment, May 21, 1969

Eisenhower,  Dwight D.,  “Farewell Address,” January 17, 1961 (Carroll 219) (Rhetoric #18)

Eisenhower,  Dwight D.,  Jock Whitney regarding Bay of Pigs, April 24, 1961 (War 383)

Goldwater, Barry,  Acceptance of Republican Presidential Nomination, July 16, 1864 

Johnson, Lyndon B., “The Great Society,” May 22, 1964 (PRES)

Johnson, Lyndon B., Renunciation Speech, March 31, 1968 (PRES)

Johnson, Lyndon B., “We Shall Overcome” (address to Congress), March 15, 1965 (PRES) (Carroll 259) (Rhetoric #10) (McIntire)

Kennedy,  John F., Address to the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1962 (PRES) (Carroll 224) (Rhetoric #49)

Kennedy,  John F.,  to Nikita Khrushchev, Letter Regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 27, 1962** (Letters 164)