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I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

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The little things Simple living Being present

Speaker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

The American Scholar

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

George H.W. Bush

1992 State of the Union Address

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Cold War

Speaker

George H.W. Bush

Source

1992 State of the Union Address Presidential State of the Union addresses

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bush, George H. W. State of the Union Address. Joint session of the United States Congress. 28 Jan. 1992, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1964 State of the Union

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Topic

Poverty American politics

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Source

1964 State of the Union Presidential State of the Union address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. "State of the Union Address." Joint congress meeting. 8 Jan. 1964, US Capital Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The fate of the country...does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Henry David Thoreau

Slavery in Massachusetts

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Topic

Citizenship

Speaker

Henry David Thoreau

Source

Slavery in Massachusetts

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Slavery in Massachusetts." Anti-Slavery Celebration. 4 July 1854, Framingham, MA, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Slavery in Massachusetts." Essays on Civil Disobedience, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2016.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

Jimmy Carter

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Role of government Political theory

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Jimmy Carter

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Carter, Jimmy. Acceptance address. Democratic National Convention. 15 July 1976, Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA.

It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6, or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

James Baldwin

Quoted in The New York Times

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Topic

Black experience

Speaker

James Baldwin

Source

The American Dream and the American Negro The New York Times

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Baldwin, James. "The American Dream and the American Negro." The New York Times, 7 Mar. 1965. Originally debate speech "The American Dream and the American Negro." Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro? Debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley. Cambridge Union. 17 Feb. 1965, Cambridge, England, UK.

As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understandings of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

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Safeguards of freedom Political theory

Speaker

William Henry Harrison

Source

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

What is our aim?... Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

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World War II Victory

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Winston Churchill

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." House of Commons meeting. 13 May 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Winston Churchill

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World War II

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Winston Churchill

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. Report on the war. House of Commons meeting. 8 Oct. 1940, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "'We can take it!' 8 October 1940, House of Commons." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.

John F. Kennedy

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The moon landing Space program

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kennedy, John F. Address on nation's space effort. 12 Sept. 1962, Rice University Stadium, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things.

Woodrow Wilson

Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Internationalism America and the world

Speaker

Woodrow Wilson

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1917, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Two Concepts of Liberty

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Topic

Nature of freedom Freedom

Speaker

Isaiah Berlin

Source

Two Concepts of Liberty

Medium

Speech

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Current Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later, edited by Bruce Baum and Robert Nichols. Routledge, 2015.

They shall not pass.

Dolores Ibarruri

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Dolores Ibarruri

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Radio broadcast Speech

Statement Type

Declaration

Language

Spanish

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Ibarruri, Dolores. Radio broadcast. 19 July 1936, Madrid, Spain.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Anti-capitalism Capitalism

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Le Guin, Ursula K. Speech in Acceptance at the National Book Foundation Metal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 19 Nov. 2014, The National Book Foundation, New York City, NY, USA, https://www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal.

What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red, because I am Sioux, because I was born where my fathers lived, because I would die for my people and my country?

Sitting Bull

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Topic

Native Americans

Speaker

Sitting Bull

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sitting Bull. Speech to Major Brotherton. 19 or 20 July 1881, Fort Buford, ND, USA.

Current Citation

Sitting Bull. "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?" Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2000.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Political theory

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Democratic National Convention. 27 June 1936, Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do.

Satya Nadella

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Morality and technology Technology Can vs. should

Speaker

Satya Nadella

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

2018 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Nadella, Satya. Quoted in “Microsoft Build: Data privacy must be protected, CEO Satya Nadella tells technologists.” Written by Rachel Lerman. The Seattle Times, 7 May 2018. Originally a keynote speech. Build conference. 7 May 2018, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe.

David Foster Wallace

2005 Kenyon College commencement address

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Narcissism Perception vs. reality The universe

Speaker

David Foster Wallace

Source

2005 Kenyon College commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

Current Citation

Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.

George H.W. Bush

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Cold War American foreign policy International politics

Speaker

George H.W. Bush

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bush, George H. W. Address to the nation on the invasion of Iraq. 16 Jan. 1991, Washington, DC, USA.

Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

Charles Sumner

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Slavery Freedom

Speaker

Charles Sumner

Source

Slavery and the Rebellion

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sumner, Charles. "Slavery and the Rebellion." 5 Nov. 1864, Cooper Institute, New York City, NY, USA.