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| 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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Jesus Christ | Sermon | Sin | ||
| Spirituality | |||||||
| John F. Kennedy | Speech | Cold War | Ich bin ein Berliner | ||||
| Berlin Wall | |||||||
| March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom |
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. | Speech | Racism | I Have a Dream | |
| Abraham Lincoln | Speech | Egalitarianism | Gettysburg Address | ||||
| Council of Clermont |
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The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, which was held from November 18 to November 28, 1095 at Clermont, France. Pope Urban II's speech on November 27 was the starting point of the First Crusade...
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Pope Urban II | Speech | |||
| Elizabeth I of England | Speech | Speech to the Troops at Tilbury | |||||
| Virginia Conventions |
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The Virginia Conventions were a series of five political meetings in the Colony of Virginia during the American Revolution. Because the House of Burgesses had been dissolved in 1774 by Royal Governor Lord Dunmore, the conventions served as a...
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Patrick Henry | American Civil War | Give me liberty or give me death | ||
| Liberty | |||||||
| Jonathan Edwards | Sermon | Sin | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | ||||
| John Winthrop | Sermon | Puritan | City upon a Hill | ||||
| Elizabeth I of England | Speech | The Golden Speech | |||||
| George Washington | Open letter | United States non-interventionism | George Washington's Farewell Address | ||||
| Thomas Jefferson 1801 presidential inauguration |
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The first inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the United States was held on March 4, 1801. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Thomas Jefferson as President and only four-year term of Aaron...
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Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address | |||
| John Maclean's Speech From the Dock |
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John Maclean MA, Scottish socialist agitator was a prominent activist against World War I. On 9 May 1918 he was tried for his anti-war activities at the High Court in Edinburgh. He used this trial to argue for socialism and against war by making a...
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Robert Emmet | Speech | Socialism | ||
| World War I | |||||||
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Farewell to the Old Guard | ||||||
| Abraham Lincoln | Speech | Lincoln's House Divided Speech | |||||
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Speech | Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 speech to the soldiers | |||||
| Alexander Stephens | United States Constitution | Cornerstone Speech | |||||
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's suffrage | Susan B. Anthony's 1873 speech on women's right to vote | |||||
| Honoré Mercier | Honoré Mercier's April 3, 1893 speech | ||||||
| 1896 Democratic National Convention |
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The 1896 Democratic National Convention, held at the Chicago Coliseum from July 7 to July 11, was the scene of William Jennings Bryan's nomination as Democratic presidential candidate for the 1896 U.S. presidential election.
At age 36, Bryan was the...
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William Jennings Bryan | Speech | Bimetallism | Cross of Gold speech | |
| Russell Conwell | Speech | Community | Acres of Diamonds | ||||
| F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead | Speech | I warn the Government | |||||
| Funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa | Patrick Pearse | Speech | Irish Republicanism | Ireland unfree shall never be at peace | |||
| Woodrow Wilson | World War I | Fourteen Points | |||||
| Fireside chats |
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The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio speeches given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
According to Roosevelt’s principal speechwriter Judge Clinton Sorrel, he first used "fireside chats" in...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Radio Broadcasting | World War II | ||
| Arsenal of Democracy |
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"The Arsenal of Democracy" is one of the 30 fireside chats broadcast on the radio by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was read on December 29, 1940, during World War II, at a time when Nazi Germany had occupied much of Europe and threatened...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Radio Broadcasting | World War II | ||
| Charles de Gaulle | Radio address | French Resistance | |||||
| Appeal of June 18 |
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The Appeal of June 18 (L'Appel du 18 Juin) was a famous speech by Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French Forces, in 1940. The appeal is the origin of the French Resistance to the German occupation during World War II. De Gaulle spoke to...
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Charles de Gaulle | Radio address | French Resistance | ||
| Winston Churchill | Address to parliament | World War II | Blood, toil, tears, and sweat | ||||
| Winston Churchill | Address to parliament | World War II | |||||
| Winston Churchill | Address to parliament | World War II | We shall fight on the beaches | ||||
| Winston Churchill | Address to parliament | World War II | This was their finest hour | ||||
| Winston Churchill | Address to parliament | World War II | Never was so much owed by so many to so few | ||||
| Winston Churchill | Address to parliament | World War II | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Address to parliament | American liberalism | Four Freedoms | ||||
| Infamy Speech |
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The Infamy Speech was delivered at 12:30 p.m. on December 8, 1941, by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii. The name derives from the first line of the speech:...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Speech | Attack on Pearl Harbor | ||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Speech | Attack on Pearl Harbor | |||||
| Quit India speech |
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The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement is best described...
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Mahatma Gandhi | Quit India Movement | |||
| Joseph Goebbels | Speech | World War II | Sportpalast speech | ||||
| Gyokuon-hōsō |
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The Gyokuon-hōsō (玉音放送), lit. "Jewel Voice Broadcast", was the radio broadcast in which Japanese emperor Hirohito read out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War (大東亜戦争終結ノ詔書, Daitōa-sensō-shūketsu-no-shōsho), announcing to the Japanese...
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Hirohito | Radio address | Japanese Instrument of Surrender | ||
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Address to parliament | Indian independence movement | Tryst with destiny | ||||
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Address to parliament | Indian independence movement | |||||
| 20th Congress of the CPSU |
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The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during February 14 – 26 1956. It is known especially for Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech", which denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.
Delegates at...
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Nikita Khrushchev | Address to parliament | Cult of personality | On the Personality Cult and its Consequences | |
| Stalinism | |||||||
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Address to parliament | Indian independence movement | |||||
| Harry S. Truman's 1949 inaugural address |
Harry S. Truman's inaugural address, known as the Four Point Speech, was delivered by United States president Harry S. Truman, on Thursday, January 20, 1949.
In a world only recently emerged from the shadow of World War II, in which freedom and...
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Harry S. Truman | World War II | ||||
| Ben Chifley | Australian Labor Party | The light on the hill | |||||
| Richard Nixon | Television address | Checkers speech | |||||
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| Fidel Castro | History Will Absolve Me | ||||||
| Nikita Khrushchev | We will bury you | ||||||
| Richard Feynman | There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom | ||||||
| Harold Macmillan | Wind of Change | ||||||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Farewell address | Military-industrial complex | |||||
| Newton N. Minow | Television | Wasteland Speech | |||||
| Tommy Douglas | Universal health care | Mouseland | |||||
| George Wallace's 1963 Inaugural Address |
George Wallace's 1963 Inaugural Address was delivered January 14, 1963, following his election as Governor of Alabama. Wallace at this time in his career was an ardent segregationist, and as Governor he challenged the attempts of the federal...
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George Wallace | Racial segregation | ||||
| Malcolm X | Racism | The Ballot or the Bullet | |||||
| Ronald Reagan | A Time for Choosing | ||||||
| Malcolm X | Racism | The Ballot or the Bullet | |||||
| Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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A speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was given by New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy on April 4, 1968. Kennedy was campaigning for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. He had spoken at the University of Notre Dame and...
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Robert F. Kennedy | Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination | |||
