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| x Pericles' Funeral Oration |
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Pericles' Funeral Oration is a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431/0 BC) as a part of the...
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| x On the Crown |
On the Crown (Greek: Υπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ Στεφάνου) is the most famous judicial oration of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes, delivered in 330 BC.
Despite the unsuccessful ventures against Philip II of Macedon and...
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| x Catiline Orations |
The Catiline Orations or Catilinarian Orations were speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero, the consul of Rome, exposing to the Roman Senate the plot of Lucius Sergius Catilina and his friends to overthrow the Roman government.
Catiline,...
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| x Sermon on the Mount |
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In the Gospel of St. Matthew, the Sermon on the Mount is a compilation of Jesus' sayings, epitomizing his moral teaching. According to chapters 5-7, Jesus of Nazareth gave this sermon (estimated around AD 30) on a mountainside to his disciples and a...
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| x The Farewell Sermon |
The The Farewell Sermon (Arabic: خطبة الوداع, Khuṭbatu l-Wadā'), also known as the Prophet's final sermon or The Last Sermon is a famous sermon by Muhammad delivered before his death, on the ninth day of Dhu al-Hijjah, 10 A.H. (632 CE), at the end...
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| x Speech to the Troops at Tilbury |
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Elizabeth I of England | Speech |
The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury was delivered on 9 August Old Style, 19 August New Style 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I of England to the land forces earlier assembled at Tilbury in Essex in preparation of repelling the expected invasion by the...
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| x The Golden Speech | Elizabeth I of England | Speech |
The rhetorical piece, The Golden Spe'ech, was delivered by Queen Elizabeth I of England to 141 Members of the Commons (including the Speaker), on October 30th, 1602. It was a speech that was expected to be addressing some pricing concerns, based on...
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| x City upon a Hill | John Winthrop | Sermon |
City upon a hill is a phrase derived from the metaphor of Salt and Light in the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus given in the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew 5:14 states "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden."
This...
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| x Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
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Jonathan Edwards | Sermon |
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. Like Edwards' other sermons and writings, it combines vivid imagery of the Christian concept of...
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| x Give me liberty or give me death |
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Virginia Conventions | Patrick Henry |
"Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made in a court hearing on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having swung the balance in...
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| x George Washington's Farewell Address |
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George Washington | Open letter |
George Washington's Farewell Address was written to "The People of the United States" near the end of his second term as President of the United States and before his retirement to Mount Vernon.
Originally published in David Claypoole's American...
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| x Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address | Thomas Jefferson 1801 presidential inauguration | Thomas Jefferson |
Chief Justice John Marshall administered the first executive oath of office ever taken in the new federal city of Washington, DC, in the new Senate Chamber (now the Old Supreme Court Chamber) of the partially built Capitol building, on March 4, 1801...
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| x Farewell to the Old Guard | Napoleon Bonaparte | ||||
| x Lincoln's House Divided Speech |
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Abraham Lincoln | Speech |
The House Divided Speech was an address given by Abraham Lincoln (who would later become President of the United States) on June 16, 1858, in Springfield, Illinois, upon accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's United...
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| x Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers | Giuseppe Garibaldi | Speech |
Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers was made as he left Naples after ceding his control of the province to King Victor Emmanuel.
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| x Cornerstone Speech | Alexander Stephens |
The Cornerstone Speech was delivered by Confederate Vice President, Alexander Stephens extemporaneously in Savannah, Georgia on March 21, 1861. The speech explained what the differences were between the constitution of the Confederate Republic and...
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| x Lincoln's first inaugural address |
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On Monday, March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was formally sworn in as the sixteenth President of the United States. Seven states had declared secession from the United States by this time and formed the Confederate States of America, and the new flag...
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| x Gettysburg Address |
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Abraham Lincoln | Speech |
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday,...
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| x Susan B. Anthony's 1873 speech on women's right to vote | Susan B. Anthony | ||||
| x Honoré Mercier's April 3, 1893 speech | Honoré Mercier | ||||
| x Cross of Gold speech |
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1896 Democratic National Convention | William Jennings Bryan | Speech |
The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. The speech advocated bimetallism. Following the coinage Act (1873), the United States abandoned its policy of...
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| x Acres of Diamonds | Russell Conwell | Speech |
"Acres of Diamonds" is the main work of Russell H. Conwell, founder of the Temple University in Philadelphia.
This work originated as a speech, which Conwell delivered over 6,000 times around the world; it was eventually published as delivered in...
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| x I warn the Government | F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead | Speech |
I warn the Government is a speech by F.E. Smith, made on 12 March 1906. It was his maiden speech in the British House of Commons. According to Brian MaCarthur, it was the "the most famous (speech) ever made" in the Commons in modern times.
A copy of...
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| x Ireland unfree shall never be at peace | Funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa | Patrick Pearse | Speech |
"Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" were the climactic closing words of the graveside oration of Patrick Pearse at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915. The oration roused Irish republican feeling and was a significant...
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| x Fourteen Points |
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Woodrow Wilson |
The Fourteen Points was a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for...
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| x Blood, toil, tears, and sweat | Winston Churchill | Address to parliament |
The famous phrase Blood, toil, tears and sweat was originally used by Theodore Roosevelt in an address to the Naval War College on June 2, 1897, following his appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
However, the phrase became well known...
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| x We shall fight on the beaches | Winston Churchill | Address to parliament |
"We Shall Fight On The Beaches" is a common title given to a speech delivered by Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the British Parliament on the 4 June 1940. The speech was given shortly after he took over as Prime Minister on the 10...
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| x This was their finest hour | Winston Churchill | Address to parliament |
The This was their finest hour speech was delivered by Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940. It was given shortly after he took over as Prime Minister of Britain on 10 May, in the...
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| x Never was so much owed by so many to so few | Winston Churchill | Address to parliament |
Never was so much owed by so many to so few is the name commonly given to a speech made by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill at the height of the Battle of Britain on August 20, 1940. The actual line in the speech is Never in...
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| x Four Freedoms |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Address to parliament |
The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urged by wife Eleanor Roosevelt and friend Jon Run, on January 6, 1941. In an address also known as the Four Freedoms speech, FDR proposed four points...
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| x Sportpalast speech |
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Joseph Goebbels | Speech |
The Sportpalast or total war speech (German: Sportpalastrede) was a speech delivered by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large but carefully-selected audience on 18 February 1943 calling for a total war, as the tide...
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| x Tryst with destiny |
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Jawaharlal Nehru | Address to parliament |
Tryst with Destiny was a speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. The speech was made to the Indian Constituent Assembly, on the eve of India's independence, towards midnight on August 14, 1947. It focuses on...
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| x The light on the hill | Ben Chifley |
The light on the hill is a phrase used to describe the objective of the Australian Labor Party. The phrase was coined in a 1949 conference speech by then Prime Minister Ben Chifley.
The speech, delivered near the end of Chifley's term as Prime...
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| x Checkers speech |
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Richard Nixon | Television address |
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made by United States Senator from California and Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon on television and radio on September 23, 1952. Senator Nixon had been accused of improprieties...
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| x History Will Absolve Me |
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Fidel Castro |
History Will Absolve Me (Spanish:"La historia me absolverá") is the concluding sentence and subsequent title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953. Castro made the speech in his own defense in court against the charges...
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| x On the Personality Cult and its Consequences |
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20th Congress of the CPSU | Nikita Khrushchev | Address to parliament |
The Personality Cult and its Consequences (Russian: О культе личности и его последствиях), commonly known as the Secret Speech or the Khrushchev Report, was a report to the 20th Party Congress on February 25 1956 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev....
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| x We will bury you |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev famously used an expression generally translated into English as "We will bury you!" ("Мы вас похороним!", transliterated as My vas pokhoronim!) while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish...
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| x There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom | Richard Feynman |
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a famous lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual...
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| x Wind of Change | Harold Macmillan |
The Wind of Change speech was a historically important address made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa, on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town. He had spent a month in Africa visiting a number of British colonies,...
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| x Military-industrial complex |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | Farewell address |
Military-industrial complex (MIC) is a concept commonly used to refer to policy relationships between governments, national armed forces, and industrial support they obtain from the commercial sector in political approval for research, development,...
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| x Wasteland Speech | Newton N. Minow |
The Wasteland Speech was given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow on May 9, 1961:
This speech is properly titled "Television and the Public Interest". It was a landmark speech for the medium of television, at a time...
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| x Mouseland | Tommy Douglas |
The Story of Mouseland was a story told first by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas, leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and, later, the New Democratic Party of Canada, both social democratic...
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| x Ich bin ein Berliner |
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John F. Kennedy | Speech |
"Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner") is a quotation from a June 26, 1963 speech by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin. He was underlining the support of the United States for West Germany 22 months after the Soviet-supported...
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| x I Have a Dream |
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Speech |
"I Have a Dream" is the popular name given to the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial...
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| x The Ballot or the Bullet | Malcolm X |
Famous speech given by Malcolm X on April 3, 1964 in Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH. I similar speech was given on April 12, 1964 a week later in Detroit, MI.
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| x A Time for Choosing | Ronald Reagan |
A Time for Choosing, also known as "The Speech," was presented on a number of speaking occasions during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by future-president Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.
Many versions...
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| x Day of Affirmation speech | John F. Kennedy | Speech |
The Day of Affirmation speech was a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966. Kennedy, who was then a U.S. Senator from New York, gave the...
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| x I've Been to the Mountaintop | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" is the popular name of the last speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr.
King spoke on 3 April 1968, at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee. The next day, King was...
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| x Rivers of Blood speech |
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The Rivers of Blood speech was a speech about immigration and anti-discrimination legislation in the United Kingdom made on April 20, 1968 by Enoch Powell (1912-1998), the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West.
Powell made...
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| x Richard Nixon's resignation speech | Richard Nixon | Farewell address |
The resignation speech of Richard Nixon, which announced an early end to his United States presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal, was delivered on August 8, 1974, at 9:01 p.m. Eastern Time from the Oval Office of the White House. It was...
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| x Tear down this wall |
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"Tear down this wall!" was the famous challenge from United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall.
In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin, by the...
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| x Sermon on the Mound |
The Sermon on the Mound is the name given by the Scottish press to an address made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 21 May 1988. The name is a play on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and on the...
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| x Gazimestan speech |
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Slobodan Milošević |
The Gazimestan speech was a speech given on 28 June 1989 by Slobodan Milošević, then President of Serbia. It was the centrepiece of a day-long event to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, in which the medieval Serbian kingdom had...
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| x I am an African |
I am an African is the title of a speech made by Thabo Mbeki on behalf of the African National Congress in Cape Town on 8 May 1996, on the occasion of the passing of the new Constitution of South Africa. At the time Mbeki was the vice president of...
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| x John Paul II's speech at Israel's Holocaust Memorial |
The words of the ancient Psalm, rise from our hearts: "I have become like a broken vessel. I hear the whispering of many - terror on every side - as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life. But I trust in you, O Lord: I say, ...
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| x Chocolate City speech |
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The Chocolate City speech is a nickname which some people have given to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speech by Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 16, 2006. The speech concerned race politics in New Orleans several months after...
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| x A More Perfect Union |
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"A More Perfect Union" is the name of a speech delivered by Senator Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Speaking before an audience at the National Constitution Center in...
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| x Tenterfield Oration | Henry Parkes |
The Tenterfield Oration was a speech given by Sir Henry Parkes at the Tenterfield School of Arts, New South Wales, Australia on 24 October 1889 advocating the Federation of the six Australian colonies, which were at the time self-governed but under...
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Nutuk (Modern Turkish: Söylev) was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, addressed to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The speech covered the events between the start of the Turkish War of Independence on May...
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| x Apobaterion |
Apobaterion (Greek ἀποβατήριον) may refer to:
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