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 […]
“How to Preserve the Local Self-Government of the States”
Source: Elihu Root, “How to Preserve the Local Self-Government of the States: A Brief Study of National Tendencies” (New York: Brentano’s, 1907), 3, 10–15, https:// books .google .com /books ?id […]
Address at the Dedication Ceremony of the New State Capitol Building at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Source: Theodore Roosevelt, Works: Presidential Addresses and State Papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European Addresses, 8 vols. (New York: Review of Reviews Publishing Company, 1910), 827, 831, 832–836, […]
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 […]