Episodes
The Weather, by Mark Twain.
From The New England Societie's 71st annual Dinner, New York City.
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Published 04/15/23
Original Campaign Speech by incumbent President Wiliam H. Taft.
Full text:
William Howard Taft: We are living in an age in which by exaggeration of the defects of our present condition, by false charges and responsibility for it against individuals and classes, by holding up to the feverish imagination of the less fortunate and the discontented the possibilities of a millenium, a condition of popular unrest has been produced.
New parties are being formed with the proposed purpose of...
Published 04/14/23
Original Campaign Speech by Woodrow Wilson, in 1912.
Full Text:
Woodrow Wilson: To look at the politics of the day from the viewpoint of the laboring man is not to suggest that there is one view proper to him, another to the employer, another to the capitalist, another to the professional man, but merely that the life of the country as a whole may be looked at from various points of view, and yet be viewed as a whole. The whole business of politics is to bring classes together upon a platform...
Published 04/13/23
Original Recording of Campaign Speech by Theodore Roosevelt of the Bull Moose Party, in 1912.
Full Text:
Theodore Roosevelt: The difference between Mr. Wilson and myself is fundamental. The other day in a speech at Sioux Falls, Mr. Wilson stated his position when he said that the history of government, the history of liberty, was the history of the limitation of governmental power. This is true as an academic statement of history in the past. It is not true as a statement affecting the...
Published 04/12/23
In 1894, French writer and bibliophile Octave Uzanne wrote the article "The End of Books" for Scribner's Magazine, which he thought would come about because of the rise of phonography, and where he predicted the rise of radio and television.
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Published 04/11/23
Original Recording:
Abolishment of war throughout the world.
by William Howard Taft, Twenty-seventh President, 1909-1913.
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Published 04/10/23
Original Speech by President Jimmy Carter, on Sept 7th, 1977.
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Published 04/09/23
Abraham Lincoln Anecdotes (from "Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln 1832-1865"), by Merwin Roe.
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Published 04/08/23
The Fifth Annual Message to Congress, by George Washington, on December 03, 1793.
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Published 04/07/23
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's deadliest battle. It remains one of the best known speeches in American history.
Lincoln's carefully...
Published 04/07/23
Our Children and Great Discoveries, by Mark Twain.
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Published 11/06/22
Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus is a summary of the ethical teachings of Epicurean philosophy written in the epistolary literary style, and addressed to a student.
It addresses theology, the hierarchies of desires, how to carry choices and avoidances in order to achieve net pleasure, and other aspects of Epicurean ethics. It is the most important of the three surviving letters of Epicurus. (From Wikipedia.)
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Published 11/06/22
Original: Address to Congress - Casey Stengel. 1958.
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Published 11/04/22
Original: Address to Congress - Douglas MacArthur, 1951.
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Published 11/04/22
Theodore Roosevelt's State of the Union on December 3, 1901.
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Published 11/03/22
Theodore Roosevelt's State of the Union on December 3, 1901.
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Published 11/03/22
Original: Address on Vietnam War Protests - Spiro Agnew.
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Published 11/02/22
Original: Address from France - John J. "Black Jack" Pershing.
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Published 11/02/22
Advice to Youth - Saturday Morning Club, Boston, April 15, 1882.
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Published 10/31/22
State of the Union Speech by President John Adams, November 22, 1797.
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Published 10/31/22
Thomas Jefferson, State of the Union, December 8, 1801
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Published 10/31/22
Socrates - The Praise of Temperance. From The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates, by Xenophon (ca. 430 BC - 354 BCE).
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Published 10/31/22
State of the Union, by James Madison, November 29, 1809.
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Published 10/30/22
Compliments and Degrees, by Mark Twain
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Published 10/30/22