greykit.essays — #speech
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1865-03-04
[american-civic]
Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's somber second inaugural, weighing the war as divine judgment on slavery — "With malice toward none, with charity for all.
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1863-11-19
[american-civic]
The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's 272-word dedication at Gettysburg — "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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1854
[american-civic]
Slavery in Massachusetts
Thoreau's furious response to the Fugitive Slave Law and Massachusetts's complicity in returning a man to bondage.
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1852-07-05
[american-civic]
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Douglass's searing Independence Day address — "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine" — indicting a republic that celebrated liberty while holding millions in bondage.
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1801-03-04
[american-founding]
First Inaugural Address
Jefferson's conciliatory inaugural after a bitter election — "We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
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1797-03-04
[american-founding]
Inaugural Address
Adams's inaugural, professing attachment to the Constitution at the first transfer of the presidency between two men.
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1789-04-30
[american-founding]
First Inaugural Address
Washington's first inaugural — the diffident opening of the presidency, invoking "the sacred fire of liberty.
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1775-03-23
[american-founding]
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Henry's call to arm the Virginia militia against Britain, closing on the most quoted sentence of the Revolution.