List of speeches

This is a list of speeches that have particular historical significance.

List of famous speeches

• 30: Sermon on the Mount – (Jesus)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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: Culture War speech – (Pat Buchanan)
• 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

• Speech
• Public speaking
• Open letter
• Communication

External links

• Famous speeches by Presidents, Prime Ministers and Martin Luther King
• Famous Speeches
• The History Channel – Great Speeches
• Great Speeches Collection at The History Place