Famous presidential speeches Use the "Filter" button to select a particular president and find the speech you want Animate Background Off President George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren William Harrison John Tyler James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard M. Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald Trump Joe Biden Search Presidential Speeches December 8, 1868: Fourth Annual Message to Congress transcript icon July 20, 1868: Veto Message Regarding Electoral College Participation transcript icon July 18, 1868: Message Proposing Constitutional Amendments transcript icon June 20, 1868: Veto Message Regarding Regulations on Confederate States transcript icon March 25, 1868: Veto Message on Legislation Amending the Judiciary transcript icon February 22, 1868: Message Regarding the Removal of Secretary Stanton transcript icon February 11, 1868: Messages Regarding Correspondence with General U.S. Grant transcript icon December 12, 1867: Message Regarding the Suspension of Secretary Stanton transcript icon December 3, 1867: Third Annual Message to Congress transcript icon September 7, 1867: Proclamation Restoring All Rights to Rebellion Participants transcript icon July 19, 1867: Message Regarding Reconstruction Legislation transcript icon June 20, 1867: Message Clarifying the Reconstruction Acts transcript icon March 23, 1867: Veto Message Regarding Rebel State Governments transcript icon March 2, 1867: Veto Message Regarding Rebel State Governments transcript icon January 29, 1867: Veto Message on Admitting Nebraska into the Union transcript icon January 28, 1867: Veto Message on Admitting Colorado into the Union transcript icon December 3, 1866: Second Annual Message transcript icon August 20, 1866: Message Proclaiming End to Insurrection in the United States transcript icon July 24, 1866: Message Restoring Tennessee to Former Status transcript icon April 2, 1866: Proclamation on the End of the Confederate Insurrection transcript icon March 27, 1866: Veto Message on Civil Rights Legislation transcript icon February 19, 1866: Veto Message on Freedmen and Refugee Relief Bureau Legislation transcript icon December 18, 1865: Announcement of the Successful Suppression of the Rebellion transcript icon December 4, 1865: First Annual Message transcript icon June 6, 1865: Executive Order Regarding Discharged Prisoners of War transcript icon June 2, 1865: Message Regarding Control of Abandoned Lands and Property transcript icon May 29, 1865: Message Reestablishing Governments in Former Confederate States transcript icon May 29, 1865: Proclamation Pardoning Persons who Participated in the Rebellion transcript icon May 2, 1865: Establishing Rewards for the Arrest of Certain Confederate Officers transcript icon April 29, 1865: Order Ending Commercial Restrictions on Confederate States transcript icon April 17, 1865: Message Following the Death of Abraham Lincoln transcript icon
