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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Two (Freeport); Douglas's Opening Remarks

Sarah Palin at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention

Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Douglas Rebuttal

Address at Cooper Institute by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Douglas Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Six (Quincy); Douglas Opening Remarks

On the Irrepressible Conflict by William Henry Seward

Speech at Chicago by Stephen Douglas

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Four (Charleston); Douglas Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Douglas Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Stephen Douglas Opening Remarks

Newt Gingrich Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Douglas Rebuttal

Sarah Palin Accepts Vice-Presidential Nomination at 2008 RNC.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Douglas Rebuttal

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams

Jeane J Kirkpatrick Addresses 1984 RNC

Paul Ryan accepts the Vice-Presidential Nomination at the 2012 RNC.

1978 Speech by Newt Gingrich to the College Republicans.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Lincoln Opening Remarks