Important American Speeches

Gettysburg Address

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gettysburgaddress.htm

John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkinaugural.htm

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address presented by Actor Walter Trumbull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8VqFiU3fSU

Benjamin Franklin Federal Convention, September, 17th 1787

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/133/historic-american-documents/4961/address-to-the-federal-convention-philadelphia-pa-september-17-1787/

Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death"

http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm

The American Rhetoric site includes mp3s of many famous speeches

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbankm-r.htm