Amer­i­can Rhetoric is a “speech bank” hold­ing over 5,000 full text, audio and video on some of the most famous speeches, lec­tures, debates and inter­views of all time. Recently they released a list of the top 100 speeches in Amer­i­can 20th cen­tury pol­i­tics (com­plete with tran­script and audio).

  1. Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. — “I Have a Dream”
  2. John Fitzger­ald Kennedy — Inau­gural Address
  3. Franklin Delano Roo­sevelt — First Inau­gural Address

If that got you inspired, these 22 per­sonal devel­op­ment videos are a great compliment.

  • Jim Rohn — “Your Best Year Ever”
  • Steve Jobs — Stan­ford Com­mence­ment Speech
  • Tim Fer­riss — Authors@Google with Marci Alboher