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# Speeches & Addresses

> Defining American speeches and presidential addresses, from Washington to Kennedy.

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    Speeches & Addresses · 1796–1963
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  <h2 className="hf-display mt-5 text-3xl font-bold leading-[1.05] tracking-tight text-[#15140f] sm:text-4xl dark:text-[#f7f6f1]">The words that summoned a nation at its turning points.</h2>
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## Founding & Early Republic

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  <Card title="Washington's Farewell Address" icon="hand-wave" href="/speeches/washington-farewell-address">
    1796 · Counsel on unity, parties, and foreign entanglements.
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  <Card title="The Monroe Doctrine" icon="globe" href="/speeches/monroe-doctrine">
    1823 · A hemisphere closed to European colonization.
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## Civil War Era

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  <Card title="Emancipation Proclamation" icon="unlock" href="/speeches/emancipation-proclamation">
    1863 · Freedom for the enslaved in rebelling states.
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  <Card title="The Gettysburg Address" icon="flag-usa" href="/speeches/gettysburg-address">
    1863 · "A new birth of freedom."
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  <Card title="Lincoln's Second Inaugural" icon="dove" href="/speeches/lincoln-second-inaugural">
    1865 · "With malice toward none."
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## Twentieth Century

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  <Card title="FDR's First Inaugural" icon="comment-dots" href="/speeches/fdr-first-inaugural">
    1933 · "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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  <Card title="FDR's Four Freedoms" icon="hand-holding-heart" href="/speeches/fdr-four-freedoms">
    1941 · Freedoms of speech, worship, from want, from fear.
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  <Card title={'FDR\'s "Day of Infamy"'} icon="anchor" href="/speeches/fdr-pearl-harbor">
    1941 · The address that brought America into WWII.
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  <Card title="Eisenhower's Farewell" icon="shield-halved" href="/speeches/eisenhower-farewell">
    1961 · A warning about the military-industrial complex.
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  <Card title="Kennedy's Inaugural" icon="torch" href="/speeches/jfk-inaugural">
    1961 · "Ask not what your country can do for you."
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  <Card title={'"I Have a Dream"'} icon="users" href="/speeches/i-have-a-dream">
    1963 · Dr. King at the March on Washington.
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