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The site American Rhetoric has compiled a list of the top 100 American speeches. You can access the text to all the speeches, as well as an mp3(hello iPod) for most as well. I wish that they had one of Bush's speeches immediately after 9/11. They have Clinton's speech after the Oklahoma City bombing (I can't remember the speech itself but I'm sure it's very good). King's "I Have a Dream" speech is ranked as #1.
It seems to me that if there's one glaring flaw to this list it's that it's limited almost entirely to the last 100 years (there are a few exceptions)--nothing from the Civil War era or from the country's founders. But I suppose it would be hard to find an mp3 of those...
It seems to me that if there's one glaring flaw to this list it's that it's limited almost entirely to the last 100 years (there are a few exceptions)--nothing from the Civil War era or from the country's founders. But I suppose it would be hard to find an mp3 of those...
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I was disappointed that it didn't feature Kennedy's "Before this decade is out" speech to Congress or his "We choose to go to the Moon" Rice University speech. I would have iPodded one of those up big time.
I reckon I can find it from another source, though, if I were less lazy.
Yeah, I agree. I thought the same thing as I scanned the list for the first time. If all Democrats had the vision that Kennedy had, I might not have to be so partisan...
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