Into the Jaws of Death

Words

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The words, set beside the person who spoke them. No paraphrase. The sentence is the one they gave.

Into the Jaws of Death. Soldiers wade toward Omaha Beach on D-Day; pairs with Eisenhower's Order of the Day ("The eyes of the world are upon you").

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Into the Jaws of Death

By US Navy / Coast Guard / Army via NARA/LOC

From $149

Full Victory, Nothing Else. The night before D-Day, General Eisenhower talks with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne; pairs with the Order of the Day text.

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Full Victory, Nothing Else

By US Navy / Coast Guard / Army via NARA/LOC

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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. A. H. Ritchie's 1866 engraving of F. B. Carpenter's painting: Lincoln reads the Proclamation to his Cabinet.

No. 048 · Great Speeches

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation

By Library of Congress

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With Malice Toward None. Alexander Gardner photographs Lincoln delivering his Second Inaugural Address at the newly finished Capitol.

No. 049 · Great Speeches

With Malice Toward None

By Library of Congress

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We Choose to Go to the Moon. JFK at Rice Stadium in Houston commits America to the Moon "not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

No. 054 · Great Speeches

We Choose to Go to the Moon

By NASA

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Black-and-white portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1863.

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The Gettysburg Address

By Great Speeches

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Color portrait of President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, photographed by Cecil Stoughton on July 11, 1963.

No. 002 · Great Speeches

The Inaugural Address

By Great Speeches

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Frederick Douglass. The abolitionist and orator who asked, "What to the slave is your Fourth of July?"

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Frederick Douglass

By National Archives copy (via Commons)

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Sojourner Truth. "I sell the shadow to support the substance": the portrait card Truth sold to fund her work; pairs with "Ain't I a Woman?" (1851).

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Sojourner Truth

By National Gallery of Art

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Susan B. Anthony. The suffrage leader who was arrested for voting in 1872; pairs with her speech "On Women's Right to Vote" (1873).

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Susan B. Anthony

By Library of Congress

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Chief Joseph. Photographed weeks after his surrender: "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

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Chief Joseph

By Wikimedia Commons (O. S. Goff, 1877)

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"If This Be Treason". Peter Rothermel's painting of Patrick Henry's Stamp Act speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

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"If This Be Treason"

By Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation (painting)

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Nothing to Fear. Page one of the typed address from the National Archives: "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." A document piece (no photo).

No. 053 · Great Speeches

Nothing to Fear

By National Archives (NARA)

From $149