The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy

Source: Address delivered at Joint Session of the Two Houses of Congress, April 2, 1917, U.S. 65th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document 5. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051386939;view=1up;seq=4. Gentlemen of the Congress: […]

Responding to German Submarine Warfare

Source: Woodrow Wilson, Address to a Joint Session of Congress on German Violations of International Law, April 19, 1916 (Government Printing Office, 1919). Available at https:// babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112063575986;view=1up;seq=4. Gentlemen of the […]

Declaration of Neutrality

Source: Woodrow Wilson, Message to Congress, 63rd Congress, 2nd Session, S. Doc. 566 (Washington, 1914), 3–4. Available at G. Peters and J. T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206513. […]

Martin Luther King Explains his Disagreement with Malcolm X

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/publications/autobiography-martin-luther-king-jr/chapter-25-malcolm-x Below, King explains his view of Malcolm X. In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would […]

Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs

Source: Richard Nixon, Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/239998. As you know, I returned last Sunday night from […]

Memorial Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery

Source: Calvin Coolidge, Memorial Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorial-day-address-arlington -national-cemetery-arlington-virginia.  … Our generation […]

Speech Introducing the Fourteenth Amendment

Source: Senator Jacob Howard, Speech introducing the 14th Amendment, May 23, 1866, Congressional Globe, Senate, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 2764–2766, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=072/llcg072.db&recNum=845.  … The section of the amendment they have submitted […]

Message to Congress in Special Session

Source: Abraham Lincoln, Special Session Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202522.  … It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether […]