List of speeches
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This is a list of speeches, mainly in the English language, that have historical significance of various degree. They are listed in chronological order.
List of famous speeches
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- 430BC: Pericles' Funeral Oration - (Pericles)
- 51BC: Funeral Oration of Julia Caesaris - (Octavian)
- 30: Sermon on the Mount - (Jesus)
- 1588: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - (Queen Elizabeth I)
- 1741: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - (Jonathan Edwards)
- 1775: Give me liberty or give me death - (Patrick Henry)
- 1789: Speech to the House of Commons - (William Wilberforce)
- 1796: Washington's Farewell Address - (George Washington)
- 1814: ''Farewell to the Old Guard - (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- 1860: Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers - (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
- 1861: Cornerstone Speech - (Alexander Stephens)
- 1863: Gettysburg Address - (Abraham Lincoln)
- 1873: Susan B. Anthony's 1873 speech on women's right to vote - (Susan B. Anthony)
- 1893: Honoré Mercier's April 3, 1893 speech - (Honoré Mercier)
- 1896: Cross of gold speech - (William Jennings Bryan)
- 1906: I warn the Government - (F.E. Smith)
- 1918: Fourteen Points - (Woodrow Wilson)
- 1939: The luckiest man on the face of the earth - (Lou Gehrig)
- 1940: Appeal of June 18 - (Charles de Gaulle)
- 1940: Blood, toil, tears, and sweat - (Winston Churchill)
- 1940: We shall fight on the beaches - (Winston Churchill)
- 1940: This was their finest hour - (Winston Churchill)
- 1941: Four Freedoms speech - (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- 1941: A date which will live in infamy - (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- 1942: Quit India speech - (Mahatma Gandhi)
- 1943: Do you want Total War? - (Joseph Goebbels)
- 1944: Paris liberated - (Charles de Gaulle)
- 1945: Imperial Rescript on Surrender (Emperor Hirohito)
- 1946: The Iron Curtain - (Winston Churchill)
- 1947: Tryst with destiny - (Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru)
- 1949: Four Point Speech - (Harry Truman)
- 1950: Man will not merely endure, he will prevail - (William Faulkner)
- 1953: History Will Absolve Me - (Fidel Castro)
- 1957: Longest speech in the United Nations - (Krishna Menon)
- 1959: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - (Richard Feynman)
- 1961: Ask what you can do for your country - (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
- 1961: Wasteland Speech - (Newton Minow)
- 1961: Mouseland - (Tommy Douglas)
- 1962: Segregation forever - (George Wallace)
- 1963: I am prepared to die - (Nelson Mandela)
- 1963: Ich bin ein Berliner - (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
- 1963: I Have a Dream - (Martin Luther King Jr.)
- 1967: Vive le Québec libre - (Charles de Gaulle)
- 1968: Rivers of Blood Speech - (Enoch Powell)
- 1974: Richard Nixon's resignation speech - (Richard M. Nixon)
- 1976: René Lévesque's victory speech of 1976 - (René Lévesque)
- 1981: Tomorrow, you will vote the abolition of the death sentence - (Robert Badinter)
- 1987: Tear down this wall - (Ronald Reagan)
- 1990: Today and forever - (Robert Bourassa)
- 1990: Geoffrey Howe resignation speech - (Geoffrey Howe)
- 1992: A Whisper of Aids - (Mary Fisher (AIDS Activist))
- 1992: Culture War speech - (Pat Buchanan)
- 1993: Redfern Park Speech - (Paul Keating)
- 1997: Remarks upon the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - (Tony Blair)
- 2000: John Paul II's speech at Israel's Holocaust Memorial - (John Paul II)
- 2001: Ground Zero Speech - (President George W. Bush)
- 2002: Lionel Jospin's concession speech of 2002 - (Lionel Jospin)
- 2006: Chocolate city speech - (Ray Nagin)
See also
External links
- [Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century]
- [Famous speeches by Presidents, Prime Ministers and Martin Luther King]
- [The History Channel - Great Speeches]
- [Great Speeches Collection at The History Place]
- [The Speeches in Acts - Their Content, Context, and Concerns by Marion L. Soards]
- [Speeches That Changed the World by Owen Collins]
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