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

*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 also military-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 the Parliament of Australia, delivered by Kevin Rudd
*2008: "A More Perfect Union" – Barack Obama

See also

*Speech
*Public speaking
*Open letter
*Communication
*
*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]

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