LibGuides: Finding Speeches: Speeches

Using this guide

This guide contains tips and links to places to find the full text and audio of speeches. If you need assistance with any of the resources, please ask a librarian!

Books

Lend me your ears: great speeches in history
Roy O. West Library General Collection PN6122 .L4 1997
Voices of multicultural America: notable speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995
Roy O. West Library General Collection PS663.M55 V64 1996
The world’s best orations, representing the development of civilization from the earliest times to the present
Roy O. West Library General Collection PN6121 .B85 1923
Representative American Speeches
Roy O. West Library General Collection PS668 .B3

Databases

You can search for recent speeches in our databases:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
You can search for speeches by using the name or topic of the speech and the word speech.

DePauw Speeches

You can find speeches given at DePauw using the following links.

Inaugural Speeches
For each President of DePauw
DePauw Digital Library
Search for "speech"

Periodicals

These periodicals contain the full text of speeches.

Air Force Speeches
Provides full-text speeches and remarks.
Executive Speeches
Presents speeches on broad topic of business.
U.S. Department of Defense Speeches
Provides full-text speeches and remarks by U.S. Department of Defense officials.
Vital Speeches of the Day
Text of speeches on wide range of political topics.

Book Searches

US Government Agencies

Congressional Record
Proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, searchable
Department of Defense
Northern Command
Office of the United States Trade Representative
USAID
USDA
The White House

Videos of Speeches

If you want to find videos of speeches, try searching on YouTube for the speaker or name of the speech.

YouTube

Websites

Most of these websites contain the full text to speeches. A few of them also contain audio speeches or clips.

American Rhetoric
Includes over 5000 speeches, plus over 200 movie speeches.
Bill Gates Speech Archive
Selected speeches from 1996-2008.
Famous Speeches in History
Includes presidential, war, civil rights, sports, and space exploration speeches.
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
Focuses on living women, but includes some historical speeches as well.
History and Politics Out Loud
Contains approximately 100 audio clips, including some conversations held in the White House.
Oyez
Multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Presidential Rhetoric: Current Speeches
Includes major speeches from United States President Barack Obama
Presidential Rhetoric: Historical Speeches
Includes speeches from every single historical United States president, including most of the inaugural addresses.
Presidential Speeches
Contains transcripts and audio
So Just: Speeches on Social Justice
Includes the full text of approximately 100 speeches from 1775-2000.
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
The annual TED conferences bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less).
The History Place: Great Speeches Collection
Includes about 70 famous international speeches.
UN Democracy
Contains transcripts (since 1994) for two of the five principal United Nations bodies. Run by volunteers--not officially by the UN.

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