Evans Liberal Politics, July 13, 2010, by Paul Evans:

I watched a great speech on YouTube last night and had the inspiration to change several of them over to .mp3′s and stream some important speeches from Evans Liberal Politics for those who would like to listen. Here are some famous political speeches and also some of the Google talks which are so informative and interesting. I may well add a few more of these later in the day. I thought we’d start with an even dozen. Any suggestions for other important (liberal – progressive) speeches should be left below as comments or you can email me with suggestions. This project took a long, long time. The Google talks especially took forever to change over to .mp3′s and upload to my server, and this has taken many hours to get ready for you all. These speeches are not copyrighted, so you can save a copy of anything you’d like by right clicking the Evans Liberal Politics logo images and selecting “save link as” to download them.

Martin Luther King: The amazing "I Have a Dream" speech. — 2:50

Robert F. Kennedy: a speech by Bobby Kennedy made on the night Martin Luther King was assassinated. The pure goodness and wonder in this speech is amazing. — 6:10

Abraham Lincoln: Sam Waterston reads Lincoln’s incredibly short but amazing Gettysburg Address. — 2:39

Franklin D. Roosevelt: his speech from the 1933 inauguration. — 20:12

Here are three speeches by John F. Kennedy:

John F. Kennedy: Speech from his 1961 inauguration. — 13:42

John F. Kennedy: JFK calls for a revolution in energy use and warns about climate change, calling for use of renewable resources. — 1:46

John F. Kennedy: A famous and infamous speech about secret societies and freedom of the press, which some speculate may have been a reason that JFK was killed (conspiracy theory). –5:24

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O.K. this is a liberal news and politics website: of COURSE we are going to have some seminal speeches by Barack Obama:

Barack Obama: An early one here – Obama’s speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. — 18:47

Barack Obama: Obama accepts the nomination at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. While this is very inspiring, it made me a little sad at some of the unfulfilled promises. — 50:19

Barack Obama: The President-elect delivers perhaps his most powerful speech on election night in Chicago. — 17:00

Here is some material where they are not speeches per se, but I wanted you to be able to hear them if desired.

Jospeph Stiglitz: One of the Google Talks which are so informative to listen to, here by the famous Nobel Prize-winning progressive economist. — 42:26

Paul Krugman: Google Talk by the famous New York Times economics opinion columnist (and Nobel Prize winner). — 71:17

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Well, I’m a bit of a nerd, and pretty geeky, so I’m taking this opportunity to give you a listen to my two favorite inspirational speeches having to do with computers. (Hint: they have a wider meaningfulness).

Steve Jobs: The founder of Apple here is saying some pretty profound things about the nature of what computers can do for our minds. The short speech is called “Computers are like bicycles for our minds.” — 1:39

Steve Jobs: Commencement address at Stanford in 2005 which is very inspirational to me. — 15:04