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"American History Learned by Famous Speaches"
(edited by Mr. Nobuo Kamioka, Kenkyu Sha)
Patrick Henry, 1775 朗読(3:48)
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
Thomas Jefferson, 1776 朗読(3:49)
All Men Are Created Equal
Red Jacket, 1805 朗読(3:54)
The Great Spirit Does Right
Frederick Douglass, 1852 朗読(3:32)
What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July?
Abraham Lincoln, 1858 朗読(1:18)
A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln, 1863 朗読(2:54)
Government of the People, by the People, for the People
Susan B. Anthony, 1873 朗読(3:30)
Are Women Persons?
Chief Joseph, 1877 朗読(1:06)
I Will Fight No More Forever
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 朗読(4:31)
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick
Florence Kelley, 1905 朗読(3:50)
Freeing the Children from Toil
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1906 朗読(4:11)
We Want the Constitution of the Country Enforced
Woodrow Wilson, 1917 朗読(4:05)
The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy
Emma Goldman, 1917 朗読(4:08)
First Make Democracy Safe in America
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 朗読(3:54)
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 朗読(3:44)
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Harry S. Truman, 1945 朗読(1:27)
It Is an Atomic Bomb
Harry S. Truman, 1947 朗読(3:33)
We Must Assist Free Peoples
John F. Kennedy, 1961 朗読(3:57)
Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968 朗読(3:41)
To Seek an Honorable Peace
Richard Nixon, 1974 朗読(3:53)
I Shall Resign the Presidency
George W. Bush, 2002 朗読(3:39)
Axis of Evil
Hillary R. Clinton, 2005 朗読(3:59)
Today Roe Is in More Jeopardy Than Ever
 
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"The culture and Society Learned by Famous Speaches"
(edited by Mr. Nobuo Kamioka, Kenkyu Sha)
以下、朗読は「新しいウィンドウ」で現れます。
Barack Obama, 2004 朗読(3:40)
We Are One People
Barack Obama, 2008 朗読(3:47)
A More Perfect Union
Hillary Clinton, 2008 朗読(4:17)
I Endorse Him and Throw My Full Support behind Him
Michelle Obama, 2008 朗読(3:59)
Barack and I Were Raised with So Many of the Same Values
Barack Obama, 2008 朗読(4:00)
Yes We Can
Barack Obama, 2009 朗読(8:20)
A New Era of Responsibility
George W. Bush, 2001 朗読(3:59)
A Great People Has Been Moved to Defend a Great Nation
Ronald Reagan, 1987 朗読(3:55)
Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall
Barack Obama, 2009 朗読(4:06)
The United States Has a Moral Responsibility to Act
Barack Obama, 2009 朗読(3:45)
We Are Looking Forward to Being an Important Partner with You


…… 《参考》 ……
Winston Churchill, 13 May 1940 朗読(5:13)
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill, 5 March 1946 朗読(3:29)
"Sinews of Peace" address
Samuel Ullman, 1920 朗読(2:46)
Youth
Samuel Ullman, 1945 朗読(2:49)
"Youth", in the Reader's Digest
Total Reading Time 2:14:52
Speakers not in this List
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Albert Einstein Al Gore
William Faulkner Jesse Jackson
Rachel Carson Jimmy Carter
Eleanor Roosevelt Larry Page
Martin Luther King Jeff Bezos
Mario Savio Peter Drucker
Malcolm X Steve Wozniak
William Sloane Coffin Jr George Soros
Kurt Vonnegut Bruce Springsteen
Shirley Chisholm Michael Jackson
Betty Freedan Oprah Winfrey
Frank James Tom Hanks
Charlotte Aldebron Noam Chomsky
Michael Moore Lance Armstrong
Hank Aaron
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Afterword
 At 2:46 pm, March 11th, 2011, when the unprecedented earthquake occurred around the Eastern Japan, I was recording the Gettysburg Address by then U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in my room on the 11th floor of the apartment in Urayasu, Chiba.
 "...... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

 Including the big tsunami caused directly after the giant earthquake, the total power of nature revealed nearly 30,000 victims in a short time. The survived victims of more than 100,000 are still now forced to be under the torture of losing their hope for living. The accident of the Fukushima nuclear plants made further attacks upon them, and aftershocks have been occurring even now. In such a case, the prospects are totally gloomy.

 I made this "Famous Speeches in the US" for my own English study. Therefore some Japanese comments and illustrative sentences of myself are added below each address of English. Even more, every address is with my reading in order to remember my reading ability at the time.

 The work was not a piece of cake, but it was productive to me.
First, each address with impressive spirits led me to the motivation of challenging.
Second, the relationship to that giant earthquake, just occurred during this work, somewhat pushed me from behind.

 TV, radio and newspapers have been reporting how the victims are trying to recover under the help of volunteers in such a severe situation.
 "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." This is, as you know, a part of John F. Kennedy's address. And now, what can I do for the victims? Poor physical strength and financial power ...... I only have my will power.

 I have come to think what I can do now is to complete this work, as, on the contrary, I have been encouraged by the people suffering a great deal of damage.
 As each of the addresses is at the risk of individual life, it is arousing sympathy from many in the audience. I really have the same spiritual elevation with them, and I would very much like to let the suffering people know my present feeling. How I wish these addresses will reach them in the future and become one of some sources of their vitality.
 It is why this work has been continuing with enthusiasm in the intervals of aftershocks since that giant quake. I added "Youth" by Samuel Ullman.

 Whether the disaster is natural or man-made, we have to step forward.
 "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," or "Rome was not built in a day."
 When and how will each of us come to our journey's end? Who knows? We have to obey the fate anyway, don't we?
 I wish each of us will keep a life worth living.
(April 14, 2011)
Addressess not open to the public at the time in 2011
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