| Year | Recipient | Nationality | Lecture title | | 1977 | Gerald R. Ford | USA|name=American}} | "Toward a Healthy Economy" |
| 1978 | Arthur F. Burns | Austria-Hungary|name=Austro-Hungarian}}
{{flag|USA|name=American}} | "The Condition of the American Economy" |
| 1979 | Paul Johnson | GBR|name=British}} | "The Things That Are Not Caesar's" |
| 1980 | William J. Baroody Sr. | USA|name=American}} | Award given posthumously |
| 1981 | Henry Kissinger | GER|name=German}}
{{flag|USA|name=American}} | "The Realities of Security" |
| 1982 | Hanna Holborn Gray | USA|name=American}} | "The Higher Learning and the New Consumerism" |
| 1983 | Alan Walters | GBR|name=British}} | "The British Renaissance, 1979-?" |
| 1984 | Robert H. Bork | USA|name=American}} | "Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law" |
| 1985 | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick | USA|name=American}} | "The United States and the World: Setting Limits" |
| 1986 | David Packard | USA|name=American}} | "Management of America's National Defense" |
| 1987 | Paul A. Volcker | USA|name=American}} | "Public Service: The Quiet Crisis" |
| 1988 | Ronald Reagan | USA|name=American}} | "Freedom and Vigilance" |
| 1989 | Antonin Scalia | USA|name=American}} |
| 1990 | Thomas Sowell | USA|name=American}} | "Cultural Diversity: A World View" |
| 1991 | Irving Kristol | USA|name=American}} | "The Capitalist Future" |
| 1993 | Dick Cheney | USA|name=American}} | "Getting Our Priorities Right" |
| 1994 | Carlos Salinas de Gortari | MEX|name=Mexican}} |
| 1995 | George F. Will | USA|name=American}} | "The Cultural Contradictions of Conservatism" |
| 1996 | Alan Greenspan | USA|name=American}} | "The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society" |
| 1997 | James Q. Wilson | USA|name=American}} | "Two Nations" |
| 1999 | Michael Novak | USA|name=American}} | "God's Country: Taking the Declaration Seriously" |
| 2000 | Christopher DeMuth | USA|name=American}} | "After the Ascent: Politics and Government in the Super-Affluent Society" |
| 2001 | Clarence Thomas | USA|name=American}} | "Be Not Afraid" |
| 2002 | Norman Podhoretz | USA|name=American}} | "America at War: The One Thing Needful" |
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