List of speeches
This is a list of speeches that have particular historical significance.
List of famous speeches
- 30: Sermon on the Mount - (Jesus Christ)
- 1588: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury - (Queen Elizabeth I)
- 1860: Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers - (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1941: Four Freedoms speech - (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- 1941: A date which will live in infamy - (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- 1943: Do you want Total War? - (Joseph Goebbels)
- 1944: Paris liberated - (Charles de Gaulle)
- 1945: Emperor Hirohito's capitulation speech (Emperor Hirohito)
- 1946: The Iron Curtain - (Winston Churchill)
- 1949: Four Point Speech - (Harry Truman)
- 1953: History will absolve me - (Fidel Castro)
- 1961: Ask what you can do for your country - (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
- 1961: Wasteland Speech - (Newton Minow)
- 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)
- 2000: John Paul II's speech at Israel's Holocaust Memorial - (John Paul II)
- 2002: The Axis of Evil - (George W. Bush)
- 2002: Lionel Jospin's concession speech of 2002 - (Lionel Jospin)
See also
External links
- Famous speeches by Presidents, Prime Ministers and Martin Luther King (http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/)
- Famous Speeches (http://www.education-india.net/inspirationals/speeches.php)
- The History Channel - Great Speeches (http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html)
- Great Speeches Collection at The History Place (http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm)