Apology / Socrates, 399 B.C. (read by Christopher Cazenove) (12:00) --
The golden speech / Queen Elizabeth I, 1601 (read by Stephanie Beacham) (10:42) --
Give me liberty, or give me death / Patrick Henry, 1775 (read by David Birney) (8:38) --
Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln, 1863 (read by Burt Reynolds) (2:51) --
Women's rights to suffrage / Susan B. Anthony, 1873 (read by Loretta Swit) (4:38) --
Cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan, 1896 (original recording, 1923) (1:41) --
Inaugural address / Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 (original broadcast)(1:22) --
Blood, toil, tears, and sweat / Winston Churchill, 1940 (original broadcast) (1:43) --
A Jewish state / David Ben Gurion, 1948 (read by Theodore Bikel) (4:57) --
Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy, 1961 (original broadcast) (13:50) --
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 (original broadcast) (16:17) --
The Berlin Wall / Ronald Reagan, 1987 (original broadcast) (2:08) --
Inaugural address / President Barack Obama, 2009 (original broadcast) (21:01).