- List of speeches
This is a list of speeches that have gained notability. They are listed in chronological order.
List of famous speeches
Before 1900
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431 B.C. : "Funeral Oration" –Pericles
*399 B.C. : "Apology of Socrates" –Plato
*63 B.C. : "Catalline Orations " –Cicero
*30 A.D : "Sermon on the Mount –Jesus Christ
*1095: "Council of Clermont "Pope Urban II
*1588: "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury " –Queen Elizabeth I
*1601: "The Golden Speech " –Queen Elizabeth I
*1630: "City upon a Hill " –John Winthrop
*1633: "Galileo's Renunciation" –Galileo Galilei
*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
*1801: "Jefferson's First Inaugural Address " –Thomas Jefferson
*1803: "Speech from the Dock " –Robert Emmet
*1814: "Farewell to the Old Guard " –Napoleon Bonaparte
*1823: "The Monroe Doctrine " –James Monroe
*1851: "Ain't I A Woman? " –Sojourner Truth
*1860: "Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers " –Giuseppe Garibaldi
*1861: "Cornerstone Speech " –Alexander Stephens
*1861: "Lincoln's first inaugural address "Abraham Lincoln
*1862: "Blood and Iron " –Otto von Bismark
*1863: "Gettysburg Address " –Abraham Lincoln
*1865: "Lincoln's second inaugural address " –Abraham Lincoln
*1873: "Susan B. Anthony's 1873 speech on women's right to vote " –Susan B. Anthony
*1877: "Chief Joseph's speech during formal surrender to U.S. Soldiers" –Chief Joseph
*1893: "Honoré Mercier's April 3, 1893 speech " –Honoré Mercier
*1896: "Cross of gold speech " –William Jennings Bryan After 1900
*1900: "
Acres of Diamonds " –Russell Conwell
*1901: "Votes for Women " –Mark Twain
*1906: "I warn the Government " –F.E. Smith
*1906: "The Man With The Muck-Rake " –Theodore Roosevelt
*1913: "Wilson's First Inaugural Address " –Woodrow Wilson
*1915: "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace " –Patrick Pearse
*1917: "War Message " ;Woodrow Wilson
*1918: "Fourteen Points " –Woodrow Wilson
*1933: "Passage of the Enabling Act " –Otto Wels
*1933: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" –Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*1934: "Every Man A King " –Huey Long
*1936: "Address to the League of Nations " –Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
*1936: "Rendezvous With Destiny " –Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*1939: "The luckiest man on the face of the earth " –Lou Gehrig
*1939: "Broadcast to the nation " –Neville Chamberlain
*1940: "Arsenal of Democracy " –Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*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
*1940: "Never was so much owed by so many to so few " –Winston Churchill
*1941: "Four Freedoms speech " –Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*1941: "What is an American " –Harold Ickes
*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: "The D-Day Prayer " –Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*1944: "Paris liberated" –Charles de Gaulle
*1945: "Imperial Rescript on Surrender" –Hirohito
*1946: "" (aka the "Iron Curtain Speech") –Winston Churchill
*1947: "Tryst with destiny " –Jawaharlal Nehru
*1948: "The light has gone out of our lives" –Jawaharlal Nehru
*1949: "Four Point Speech " –Harry Truman
*1949: "The light on the hill " –Ben Chifley
*1950: "Man will not merely endure, he will prevail " –William Faulkner
*1952: "Checkers speech " –Richard M. Nixon
*1953: "History Will Absolve Me " –Fidel Castro
*1956: "On the Personality Cult and its Consequences " (aka the "Secret Speech") –Nikita Khrushchev
*1956: "We will bury you " –Nikita Khrushchev
*1957: "Longest speech in the United Nations " –Krishna Menon
*1959: "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom " –Richard Feynman
*1960: "Wind of Change" –Harold Macmillan
*1961: "" –Dwight D. Eisenhower (see alsomilitary-industrial complex )
*1961: "Ask not what your country can do for you" –John F. Kennedy
*1961: "Wasteland Speech " –Newton Minow
*1961: "Mouseland " –Tommy Douglas
*1962: "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever" –George Wallace
*1962: "" –Douglas MacArthur
*1962: "Rice University Address " –John Fitzgerald Kennedy
*1963: "I am prepared to die " –Nelson Mandela
*1963: "We all breathe the same air " –John Fitzgerald Kennedy
*1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner " –John Fitzgerald Kennedy
*1963: "I Have a Dream " –Martin Luther King Jr.
*1964: "The Ballot or the Bullet " –Malcolm X
*1964: "A Time for Choosing " –Ronald Reagan
*1966: "Day of Affirmation " –Robert F. Kennedy
*1967: "Vive le Québec libre" –Charles de Gaulle
*1967: "Time to Break Silence " –Martin Luther King Jr.
*1968: "Remarks on Dr. Martin Luther King's Assassination" –Robert F. Kennedy
*1968: "Rivers of Blood speech " –Enoch Powell
*1973: "" –Salvador Allende
*1974: "Richard Nixon's resignation speech " –Richard M. Nixon
*1981: "Robert Badinter's speech against the death penalty" –Robert Badinter
*1987: "Tear down this wall " –Ronald Reagan
*1987: "Today and forever" –Robert Bourassa
*1988: "Sermon on the Mound " –Margaret Thatcher
*1989: "Gazimestan speech " –Slobodan Milošević
*1990: "Geoffrey Howe resignation speech " –Geoffrey Howe
*1992: "" –Pat Buchanan
*1992: "Redfern Park Speech " –Paul Keating
*1996: "I am an African " –Thabo Mbeki
*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: "9/11 Address to the Nation " –George W. Bush
*2002: "Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs" –Jacques Chirac
*2003: "" –Dominique de Villepin
*2003: "Iraq War eve-of-battle speech" – Tim Collins
*2006: ""Chocolate City" speech" –Ray Nagin
*2008: "Apology to the Stolen Generations" – resolution by theParliament of Australia , delivered byKevin Rudd
*2008: "A More Perfect Union" –Barack Obama See also
*Speech
*Public speaking
*Open letter
*Communication
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*Speeches of Weber External links
* [http://www.thespeeches.com/ A Collection of historical speeches from many great leaders - JFK, MLK, Gandhi, Churchill and others]
* [http://www.vsotd.com/ Vital Speeches of the Day]
* [http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ American Rhetoric]
* [http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/ Famous speeches by Presidents, Prime Ministers and Martin Luther King]
* [http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html The History Channel - Great Speeches]
* [http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm Great Speeches Collection at The History Place]
* [https://www.ppcbooks.com/Details.asp?BookID=0664252214 The Speeches in Acts - Their Content, Context, and Concerns by Marion L. Soards]
* [https://www.ppcbooks.com/Details.asp?BookID=0664221491 Speeches That Changed the World by Owen Collins]
* [http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century]dan_kool@yahoo.com
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