| A model of Christian charity | 24 |
| A brief recognition of New-England[']s errand into the wilderness | 37 |
| Abraham's offering up his son Isaac | 54 |
| Sinners in the hands of an angry god | 65 |
| Excerpt from Joy and salvation by Christ; his arm displayed in the Protestant cause (peace of 1763) | 79 |
| Declarations | 86 |
| Letter II in letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies | 92 |
| Boston Massacre oration - March 5, 1774 | 98 |
| Liberty or death | 108 |
| Excerpt from Common sense | 112 |
| To the people of Pennsylvania, excerpt from letter III | 128 |
| Censure of John Pigg | 133 |
| Opening speech at the constitutional convention | 138 |
| Exchange at the constitutional convention regarding a proposed second convention | 142 |
| Closing speech at the constitutional convention | 145 |
| Exchange at the Virginia ratifying convention | 148 |
| First State of the Union address | 174 |
| Excerpts from Memoranda on the constitutionality of the National Bank | 179 |
| Farewell address | 186 |
| First inaugural address | 203 |
| The role of government in internal improvement | 208 |
| The protective tariff : excerpt from The American system and excerpts from South Carolina exposition and Protest (original draft) | 213 |
| Bunker Hill monument address | 227 |
| Speech at Fort Meigs | 246 |
| Campaigning in madison county (1823) and comments on King Andrew | 256 |
| Tormented by mockers | 261 |
| Debate before the Choctaw and Chickasaw council | 266 |
| Farewell to Black Hawk | 274 |
| The evils of intemperance | 278 |
| To the public | 286 |
| Excerpt from Abolition of negro slavery | 291 |
| Declaration of sentiments | 309 |
| Pastoral letter and response to the pastoral letter | 315 |
| The murder of Lovejoy | 324 |
| Declaration of sentiments | 331 |
| Protest | 335 |
| What to the slave is the Fourth of July? : excerpt from an Oration, at Rochester, July 5, 1852 | 338 |
| Webster-Hayne debate on Foot's resolution | 346 |
| Excerpts from Senate speeches on the compromise of 1850 | 371 |
| House divided | 396 |
| Excerpts from The Lincoln-Douglas debate at Freeport | 407 |
| Excerpt from The character of Washington | 422 |
| Cooper union address | 426 |
| First inaugural address | 442 |
| First inaugural address | 448 |
| Gettysburg Address | 456 |
| Second inaugural address | 460 |
| Congressional debate over reconstruction policy | 463 |
| Senate speech introducing and excerpts from The Senate debate on the Fifteenth aAmendment | |
| The new south | 492 |
| Excerpt from Oration on the life, character and public service of the Hon. John C. Calhoun | 501 |
| Cotton states exposition address | 504 |
| Or Mr. Booker T. Washington and others | 509 |
| Acres of diamonds | 520 |
| Standard Oil and foreign missions | 534 |
| The forgotten man (abridged) | 544 |
| Wealth | 559 |
| Old-time political speeches | 568 |
| Populist songs : "the independent man" and "good-bye, my party, good-bye" | 572 |
| Cross of gold | 577 |
| The man with the muck rake | 586 |
| First inaugural address | 596 |
| Speech to the Order of the Knights of Labor | 602 |
| The labor question | 607 |
| Working class politics | 614 |
| At a public meeting in Charleston | 619 |
| Petition to Congress for woman suffrage | 628 |
| Call for the anniversary convention of the American Equal Rights Association | 630 |
| Speech to the anniversary convention of the American Equal Rights Association | 633 |
| Excerpts from Is it a crime for a citizen of the United States to vote? | 637 |
| Testimony to the select committee on woman suffrage : United States Senate, March 7, 1884 | 642 |
| The solitude of self | 647 |
| The crisis (abridged) | 656 |
| American empire : the march of the flag (abridged) | 672 |
| American empire : acceptance speech, 1900 (abridged) | 679 |
| War message | 690 |
| The League of Nations debate | 700 |
| The arsenal of democracy | 713 |
| America's present emergency | 724 |
| War message | 730 |
| Progressive government | 734 |
| First inaugural address | 747 |
| Fireside chat on banking | 752 |
| A time for choosing | 756 |
| First inaugural address | 767 |
| An iron curtain has descended (abridged) | 774 |
| The threat of a red Asia | 779 |
| Inaugural address | 787 |
| How to save lives and political face in Vietnam | 791 |
| Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals (the "evil empire" speech) | 796 |
| Address to a joint session of Congress and the American people | 804 |
| Senate speech on free speech in wartime (abridged) | 812 |
| A moral necessity for birth control | 819 |
| Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association | 831 |
| I have a dream | 837 |
| Separation vs. integration : a debate | 844 |
| Testimony before Senate hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment, May 6, 1970 | 864 |
| Excerpts from Testimony before the House of Representatives on the Equal Rights Amendment, October 20, 1983 | 870 |