The Chinese People Have Stood Up
Opening address by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. September 21, 1949. Excerpted from the UCLA […]
Address Before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Gerald R. Ford, Address in Helsinki Before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/256556 Mr. Chairman, my […]
Speech before Meeting of Voters in the Stalin Electoral District
Joseph Stalin. Speech Delivered by J.V. Stalin at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow. Pamphlet Collection, J. Stalin, Speeches Delivered at Meetings of Voters of the […]
Renouncing War: The Kellogg-Briand Pact
Frank B. Kellogg, “Address of the Honorable Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State,” June 11, 1928, in U.S. Department of State, The General Pact for the Renunciation of War: Text […]
Laying to Rest an Unknown American Soldier
Address of the President of the United States at the Burial of an Unknown American Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, November 11, 1921 (Government Printing Office, 1921). Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t8nc6t24q. Mr. Secretary […]
Defending the Versailles Peace Treaty
Woodrow Wilson, Address at the City Hall Auditorium in Pueblo, September 25, Available at Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/318184. Mr. Chairman and fellow […]
The Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson, Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Conditions of Peace, January 8, 1918. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptid=mdp.39015074797914&view=1up&seq=1. Gentlemen of the Congress: Once more, as repeatedly before, the […]
Opposition to War
Senator George Norris, April 4, 1917, Congressional Record, 65th Congress, 1st Session (Washington, DC, 1917), vol. 55, part I, 213, 39. Available at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt8-v55/GPO-CRECB-1917-pt8-v55-7. While I am most emphatically and […]
Defending the Versailles Peace Treaty
Source: Woodrow Wilson, Address at the City Hall Auditorium in Pueblo, September 25, 1919. Available at Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/318184. Mr. Chairman […]
Opposing the League of Nations
Source: Congressional Record, 66th Congress, 1st Session, 3779–3784. Available at: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf . . . If Europe desires such an alliance or league with a power of this kind, then so […]