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What Are The Greatest Speeches in American History?

Any person looking to be a leader needs to understand the importance of being an effective communicator. So when thinking about communications, what is the best speech ever? While it would be difficult to accurately judge, American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches provides a list of the best speeches ever. In addition the website provides audio and text to these speeches.

Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech ranks as the greatest American speech of all-time according to this site. You can experience the actually audio of this speech here in with excellent mp3 quality.

Here are the top five speeches with with audio as listed on American Rhetoric:

1. Martin Luther King Jr. – I Have A Dream
2. John F. Kennedy – Inaugural Speech
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt – First Inaugural Speech
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt – Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
5. Barbara Charline Jordan – 1976 DNC Keynote Address
   

What made these speeches so great? They were able to enchant the soul! These speakers took general issues and used wide varieties of allegories, similes, and metaphors to advance their causes. Brilliant (-: