Speeches, Orations, Lectures, and Sermons

Our Speeches CD, with the full text of 124 books of speeches, orations, lectures, and sermons, includes Demosthenes, Cicero, Daniel Webster, Edmund Burke, William James, Franklin Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Thomas Huxley, Charles Kingsley, Jonathan Swift, and John Bunyan, as well as Inaugural Addresses and State of the Union Speeches.

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The main sections of the CD and of this page are:

• About Oratory and Orators
• Speeches and Lectures
• American
• British
• German
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Irish
• Italian
• Latin
• Sermons

Table of Contents

About Oratory, Orators, and Debating

• Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators
• Elements of Debating by Leverett Lyon, 1919
• Expressive Voice Culture, including the Emerson System by Jessie Southwick
• The Delsarte System of Oratory, 1893
• Evolution of Expression (volume 1 of 2) by Charles Emerson
• More Toasts: Jokes, Stories and Quotations compiled by Marion Mosher, 1922
• Phrases for Public Speakers, compiled by Grenville Kleiser, 1910
• Public Speaking by Irvah Lester Winter
• Three Hundred Anecdotes
• Toasts and Forms of Public Address by William Pittenger
• The World's Best Orations, volume 1

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American Speeches and Lectures

General

• American Eloquence: Studies in American Political History edited by Alexander Johnston
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4

Official Speeches of Presidents

• Inaugural Addresses
• Washington to Clinton
• George W. Bush, 2001
• State of the Union Addresses, 1790-2002

John Quincey Adams (1767-1848)

• Orations by John Quincy Adams

Washington Allston (1779-1843)

• Lectures on Art by Washington Allston, 1850

Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858)

• On the Expunging Resolution, speech by Thomas Hart Benton, January 12, 1837 (short)

William Jennings Bryan

• In His Image

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)

• On Nullification and the Force Bill, speech by John C. Calhoun, February 15, 1833 (short)

S. R. Calthrop

• Lecture on Physical Development and Its Relation to Mental and Spiritual Development, 1858

Henry Clay (1777-1852)

• On the Seminole War, speech by Henry Clay, January 19, 1819 (short)
• On the Expunging Resolutions, speech by Henry Clay, January 16, 1837 (short)

Caleb Cushing

• Speech of Mr. Cushing of Massachusetts on the Right of PEtition as Connected with Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery, 1836

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)

• Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858

John Hossack

• Speech of John Hossack, convited of a violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1860

William James (1842-1910)

• The Meaning of Truth
• A Pluralistic Universe
• Pragmatism
• Varieties of Religious Experience

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1098-1973)

• Tonkin Gulf Incident 1964

John Kerry (1943- )

• Statement of Vietnam Veterans Against the War 1971

Samuel Kirklan

• English Grammer in Familiar Lectures

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

• Gettysburg Addess

James Monroe (1758-1831)

• The Monroe Doctrine

George Reisner

• The Egyptian Concption of Immortality (lecture)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

• Fireside Chats: radio broadcasts 1933-1944
• Four Freedoms Speech, January 1941
• Speech to Congress Regarding the Bombing of Peal Harbor
• Statement on North African Policy 1942

Theodore Roosevelt

• African and European Addresses

John L. Stoddard

• volume 10 -- Southern California, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, 1900 (lectures)

John Mason Tyler (1851-1929)

• The Whence and Whither of Man, lectures, 1895

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories

• The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
• The Grateful Poodle
• The Benevolent Author
• The Grateful Husband
• Punch, Brothers, Puch
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Canvasser's Tale
• An Encounter with an Interviewer
• Paris Notes
• Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
• Speech on the Babies
• Speech on the Weather
• Concerning the American Language
• Rogers
• Sketches New and Old
• My Watch
• Political Economy
• The Jumping Frog
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy
• The Story of the Good Little Boy
• A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
• Niagara
• Answers to Correspondents
• To Raise Poultry
• Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
• My First Literary Venture
• How the Author was Sold in Newark
• The Office Bore
• Johnny Greer
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• The Case of George Fisher
• Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
• The Judges "Spirited Woman"
• Information Wanted
• Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girld
• My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
• A Fashion Item
• Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
• A Fine Old Man
• Science vs. Luck
• The Late Benjamin Franklin
• Mr. Bloke's Item
• A Medieval Romance
• Petition Concerning Copyright
• After-Dinner Speech
• Lionizing Murderers
• A New Crime
• A Curious Dream
• A True Story
• The Siamese Twins
• Speech a thte Scottish Banquet in London
• A Ghost Story
• The Capitoline Venus
• Speech on Accident Insurance
• John Chinaman in New York
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
• The Petrified Man
• My Bloody Massacre
• The Undertaker's Chat
• Concerning Chambermaids
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
• "After" Jenkins
• About Barbers
• "Party Cries" in Ireland
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
• History Repeats Itself
• Honored as a Curiosity
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• Cannibalism in the Cars
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• The Widow's Protext
• The Scriptural Panoramist
• Curing a Cold
• A Curious Pleasure Excursion
• Running for Governor
• A Mysterious Visit
• Speeches

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

• What Is Your Culture to Me? (speech)

George Washington (1732-1799)

• Farewell Address 1796

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

• Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
• Webster's March 7 Speech and Secession (1850)
• Selected Speeches of Daniel Webster

Woodrow Wilson

• The New Freedom, 1913

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British (English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh) Speeches and Lectures

• Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 edited by Edgar Jones, 1914
• Speeches and Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1, by John Bright
• Speeches from the Dock, Part 1, by many [Irish]

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

• Selections from Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke
• Thoughts on the Current Discontents and Speeches
• Speech on Conciliation with America
• Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 9

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• Speeches

Queen Elizabeth I

• Speech to Her Last Parliament (the Golden Speech)

Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

• Science and the Hebrew Tradition
• Essay 1, the Method of Zadig
• Essay 2, the Rise and Progress of Palaeontology
• Essay 3, Lectures on Evolution
• Essay 4, Interpreters of Genesis and Interpreters of Nature
• Essay 5, Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
• Essay 6, the Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
• Essay 7, Hasisdra's Adventure
• Essay 8, the Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
• Lectures and Essays

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

• Alexandria and Her Schools
• Ancien Regime
• Historical Lectures
• Literary and General Lectures and Essays
• The Roman and the Teuton
• Sanitary and Social Lectures

Thomas Babbington, Lord Macaulay

• Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4

Viscount Morley (1838-1923)

• Indian Speeches 1907-1909 by Viscount Morley

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

• The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization

Thomas Troward (1847-1916), born in India of British parents

• The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward
• The Dore Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• Essays and Lectures

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German Speeches and Lectures

August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)

• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

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Hungarian Speeches and Lectures

• Select Speeches of Kossuth, selected and edited by Francis Newman

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Greek Speeches and Lectures

Demosthenes

• The Olynthiacs and Phillipics
• The Public Orations of Demosthenes, translated by ARhtur Wallace Pickard
• volume 1
• volume 2

Lycias

• Orations

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Irish Speeches and Lectures

John Tyndall

• Six Lectures on Light

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Italian Speeches and Lectures

Enrico Ferri

• The Positive School of Criminology

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Latin Speeches and Lectures

Cicero

• The Academica of Cicero, edited by James Reid (Latin with notes in English)
• Cicero's Tusculum Disputations, translated by C.D. Yonge
• Four speeches against Cataline, in Latin
• Miscellaneous Speeches, in Latin
• In C. Verrem
• Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta
• Pro Q. Ligario
• Pro M. Marcello
• The Orations of Cicero, translated by C.D. Yonge, volume 4, 1903

Cornelius Tacitus

• A Dialgue Concerning Oratory or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence

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Sermons

The World's Great Sermons, edited by Grenville Kleiser

• volume 1 Basil to Calvin
• volume 2 Hooker to South
• volume 3 Massilon to Mason
• volume 8 Talmage to Knox Little
• volume 10 Drummond to Jowett
• Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by William Stidger
• The National Preacher or Original Monthly Sermons, edited by Austin Dickinson
• Dec. 1827

Catherine Booth (1829-1890). married to William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

• Godliness by Catherine Booth, 1881

Phillip Brooks

• Addresses by Rev. Phillip Brooks, 1895

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

• Works of John Bunyan (11 Mbytes)
• Miscellaneous Pieces (articles)
• Of the Trinity and a Christian
• Of the Law and a Christian
• Bunyan's Last Sermon
• Bunyan's Dying Sayings

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

• David: Five Sermons
• Discipline and Other Sermons
• The Hermits
• Twenty-Five Village Sermons
• All Saints' Day and Other Sermons
• The Good News of God
• The Gospel of the Pentateuch: a set of parish sermons
• Sermons for the Times
• Town and Country Sermons

Andrew Lee

• Sermons on Various Important Subjects

Ichabod Spencer

• The Fugitive Slave Law: the Religious Duty of Obedience to Law (sermon)

C. H. Spurgeon (1858-1892)

• Till He Come

Robert Louis Stevenson

• A Christmas Sermon, 1900

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

• Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 6
• volume 10
• Three Sermons, Three Prayers (short)

T. de Witt Talmage

• New Tabernacle Sermons, 1886

H.B. Whipple

• Five Sermons, 1890