List of speeches 665585 223834571 2008-07-06T01:40:53Z 121.218.189.159 /* After 1900 */ {{globalize}} {{recentism|date=January 2008}} This is a '''list of speeches''' that have gained notability. They are listed in chronological order. == List of famous speeches == {{listdev}} ===Before 1900=== *[[399 B.C.]]: ''[[Apology (Plato)|Apology of Socrates]]'' – [[Plato]] *[[63 B.C.]]: "[[Among us you can no longer dwell]]" – [[Cicero]] *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 affair|Galileo's Renunciation]]'' – [[Galileo Galilei]] *1741: ''[[Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God]]'' – [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] *1775: ''[[Give me liberty or give me death]]'' – [[Patrick Henry]] *1789: ''[[Speech to the House of Commons]]'' – [[William Wilberforce]] *1796: ''[[George Washington's Farewell Address|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]] *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: ''[[First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt|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: ''[[Infamy Speech|A date which will live in infamy]]'' – [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] *1942: ''[[Quit India speech]]'' – [[Mahatma Gandhi]] *1943: ''[[Sportpalast speech|Do you want Total War?]]'' – [[Joseph Goebbels]] *1944: ''[[The D-Day Prayer]]'' – [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] *1944: ''[[Liberation of Paris|Paris liberated]]'' – [[Charles de Gaulle]] *1945: ''[[Gyokuon-hoso|Imperial Rescript on Surrender]]'' – [[Hirohito]] *1946: ''[[wikisource:Sinews of Peace|Sinews of Peace]]'' (aka the "[[Iron Curtain]] Speech") – [[Winston Churchill]] *1947: ''[[Tryst with destiny]]'' – [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] *1948: ''[[Mahatma Gandhi#Assassination|The light has gone out of our lives]]'' – [[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]] *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 (speech)|Wind of Change]]'' – [[Harold Macmillan]] *1961: ''[[wikisource:Eisenhower's farewell address|Eisenhower's Farewell Address]]'' – [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (see also [[military-industrial complex]]) *1961: ''[[Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy|Ask not what your country can do for you]]'' – [[John F. Kennedy]] *1961: ''[[Wasteland Speech]]'' – [[Newton Minow]] *1961: ''[[Mouseland]]'' – [[Tommy Douglas]] *1962: ''[[Segregation forever]]'' – [[George Wallace]] *1962: ''[[wikisource:Duty, honor, country|Duty, Honor, Country]]'' – [[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]] *1967: ''[[Vive le Québec libre speech|Vive le Québec libre]]'' – [[Charles de Gaulle]] *1967: ''[[Time to Break Silence]]'' – [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] *1968: ''[[Rivers of Blood speech]]'' – [[Enoch Powell]] *1973: ''[[Wikisource:Salvador Allende's Last Speech|The great avenues will open again]]'' – [[Salvador Allende]] *1974: ''[[Richard Nixon's resignation speech]]'' – [[Richard M. Nixon]] *1981: ''[[Robert Badinter's speech against the death penalty|Tomorrow, you will vote the abolition of the death sentence]]'' – [[Robert Badinter]] *1987: ''[[Tear down this wall]]'' – [[Ronald Reagan]] *1987: ''[[Robert Bourassa's speech on the end of the Meech Lake Accord|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: ''[[wikisource:Patrick Buchanan's Speech to 1992 GOP Convention|Culture War speech]]'' – [[Pat Buchanan]] *1993: ''[[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]]'' – [[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]] *2001: ''[[9/11 Address to the Nation]]'' – [[George W. Bush]] *2002: ''[[:fr:Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs|Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs]]'' – [[Jacques Chirac]] *2003: ''[[Tim Collins (soldier)#Eve-of-battle speech|Iraq War eve-of-battle speech]]'' – [[Tim Collins (soldier)|Tim Collins]] *2006: ''[[Chocolate City speech|"Chocolate City" speech]]'' – [[Ray Nagin]] *2008: "[[Stolen_Generations#Apology_text|Apology to the Stolen Generations]]" *2008: ''[[A More Perfect Union]]'' – [[Barack Obama]] == See also == *[[Speech (public address)|Speech]] *[[Public speaking]] *[[Open letter]] *[[Communication]] *[[Wikisource:wikisource:Speeches|Wikisource Collection of Speeches]] *[[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] [[Category:Speeches|*]]