The Gettysburg Address
Two hundred and seventy-two words that redefined a nation.
Read the speech → Abraham Lincoln · 1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
“With malice toward none, with charity for all” — mercy at the end of a war.
Read the speech → Theodore Roosevelt · 1910The Man in the Arena
The case for daring greatly — and against the cheap seats.
Read the speech →Modern classics
Still under copyright, so these pages hold excerpts and the story of each speech — with the full recording or transcript linked at its official home.
Steve Jobs · 2005Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Three stories, one commencement, and the most-watched graduation speech ever given. Full video included.
Watch & read → Bill Watterson · 1990Some Thoughts on the Real World by One Who Glimpsed It and Fled
The Calvin and Hobbes creator on playfulness, real jobs, and inventing your own meaning.
Read the excerpts → Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968The Drum Major Instinct
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.” The sermon behind the line, two months before Memphis.
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