• Democracy Rhetorical Texts - Indiana University (War and Peace Speeches)
• History and Politics Out Loud (Audio)
• Conservative Political Speeches
• American Rhetoric (Data base of more than 5000 speeches)
• The History Place - Great Speeches Collection - Text, some Audio
• History Channel Collection - Great Speeches (some audio)
• Historical Speeches - Speech and Transcript Center George Washington University
• Authentic History Center (Audio, presidential & Others, by decade)
• UC Berkeley Online Audio Recordings (Many speeches not political)
• Online Speech Bank (Huge collection with Audio and Video)
• U.K. House of Commons Debates in Hansard
• A Complete Winston Churchill Speech Archive Page (audio)
• Winston Churchill Speech Page (audio)
• Contemporary Political Speeches - Great Britian
• Earliest Voices - Vincent Voice Library
• "Say it Plain" A Century of African American Speeches - American Radio Works
• Famous Historical Speeches, Guilder Lehrman Guide
• Campaign 2000 - C-Span collection of speeches
• Castro Speech Database
• Civil War Era Speeches
• Malcolm X His Words Written and Spoken
• Speeches by South African President Nelson Mandela
• More Speeches by South African President Nelson Mandela
• A collection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's words and works
• Impressive Collection of Speech Resources
• Famous Historical Speeches (audio)
• Historical U.S. Speakers (audio)
• Speeches by Fredrick Douglass (audio)
• Archive of Great Speeches (text and audio)
• Famous and Infamous Speeches from 1940-90
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
• The Media Institute - Communications Forum Speeches (newsmakers from government and the communications industry)
• NATO Speeches
• Inspirational Quotes

• Inaugural Addresses the Presidents of the United States
• State-of-the-Union Speeches (and others for Presidents)
• The Living Room Candidate (political advertisments 1952-2000)
• WWI and 1920 Election, Library of congress
• Weekly Presidential Radio addresses
• American Presidency Project UC Santa Barbara
• Internet Public Library: POTUS (samplings of recordings for presidents)
• Miller Center (Univ. of Virginia) collection of audio, Presidents FDR to Bush II
• Presidential White House Tapes
• Vincent Library (Michigan State) Audio Collection, 20th Century Presidents
• American Presidency Speech Archives  
• Douglass Achieve Northwestern University - obscure Presidential speeches
• University of Texas collection of Presidential Addresses
• Nixon Speeches
• U.S. Presidential Speech Archive (Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union)
• Presidential Speeches and Briefings at the White House Home Page
• Presidential Speeches Home Page
• U.S. Presidential Speeches, Bios, other materials
• Impressive Repository of U.S. Government Offical Speeches and Testimonies
• Searchable Database of President Clinton's Speeches
• President Reagan's Speeches
• Speeches and Writings by President Lincoln
• US Presidential Rhetoric from 1776-1999 Web Page
• PresidentialRhetoric.com (large collection of speeches)

• Current Day Debate Sites
• A new Generation Debate "Create a Debate" website
• Debate Hall of Fame - get the best of the best
• International Debate Education Association - a powerful collection of information
• Debate Central - a huge collection of resources on debates
• America's Debate - a blog and forum site for online debate
• Debate Scoop - an ongoing collection of current and historical debate discussion
• Commission on Presidential Debates
• Transcripts and video of 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debates
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates (speeches)

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Classic Texts Online - as advertised
• Checklist for Analyzing Speeches - a nice list of how to analyze your own work
• Constructing a Logical Argument - good for debate prep and speech writing
• A Translation Tool Web Site - for those times "it's all Greek to you"
• A Political Dictionary Online - so, what's THAT mean?

• Today's Front Pages - images (.pdf) of 488 front pages from 42 counties

• News Voyager - links to all major dailies, weeklies, college publications, media organizations

Blog Aggregators:

Comprehensive List of Many Political Blogs, referenced by type
US Political Blogs list, middle, left and right
Best Political Blogs - from Forbes
Just Above Sunset - News Before it Becomes News
Slate - Washington Post group owned - mainstream
The Daou Report - left goes to the left, right to the right in this interesing website
• Real Clear Politics - commentary mostly right/conservative based, but based on headlines
• Crooks and Liars - amazing collection of clips and footage
• Townhall - the players on the conservative scene and their opinion pieces
• The Huffington Post - Arianna Huffington's creation, now almost unbeatable in the realm
• Memeorandum - very active, has the links to the original news stories, all sorted by topic