Speeches by Great Hall of Famers

Hear Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone, Lee Iacocca hold forth on the topic of Japanese trade, Warren Buffett's thoughts on the financial future of America's youth, and Jack Welch at his final management meeting as CEO of General Electric. These are j...

When First Lady Michelle Obama approached the podium at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, nobody could have predicted that her rousing and emotional “When they go low, we go high” speech would go on to become the motto for the po...

From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln – here are some of history’s most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these ...

Bill Moyers on America today:“Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of ou...

Christopher Hitchens was arguably the most erudite, provocative, and polarizing writers of the last 25 years. When he passed away in 2011 from esophageal cancer, writers, readers, listeners, pundits and critics the world over mourned his loss. AN...

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.The Source of Self-Regard is brimming...

Great Speeches by the First Ladies of the United States highlights twenty-five of the most important and well-known speeches by our nation's First Ladies. This collection includes speeches by Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson,...

Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as president of the United States. At a time when victory over the secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery was near a...

This collection features fourteen of the most important and well-known speeches by some of the world's most influential religious leaders.Mahatma Gandhi: "Oh God" (1931)Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Paul's Letter" (1956)Dr. Billy Graham: "Truth" add...