This data reveals the association between peace and security framing in US presidential speech on the one hand, and the US impact on fatalities in US conflicts on the other. Specifically, it compares the frequency of certain key terms and references in presidential speech from the period 1993-2014, as they were coded from the text in the “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States”, with statistics on fatalities of organised violence during the same period, drawn from Uppsala University's UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset.