10 Speeches From Modern Presidents That Every American Citizen Should Know 

10 Modern Presidential Speeches Every American Should Know

Presidential speeches reveal the United States’ challenges, hopes, dreams and temperature of the nation, as much as they do the wisdom and perspective of the leader speaking them. Even in an age of Twitter, the formal, spoken word from the White House carries great weight and can move, anger or inspire at home and around the world.

Here are the 10 most important modern presidential speeches selected by scholars at the Miller Center—a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship—and professors from other universities, as well.

You can find these speeches, with their commentary, as well as dozens more on the HISTORY speeches skill for Amazon Alexa.

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