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| x Sermon on the Mount |
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Jesus Christ | Sermon |
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 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 Speech to the Troops at Tilbury |
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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 Gyokuon-hōsō |
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Hirohito | Radio address |
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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| x Appeal of June 18 |
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Charles de Gaulle | Radio address |
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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| x Council of Clermont |
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Pope Urban II | Speech |
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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| x John Maclean's Speech From the Dock |
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Robert Emmet | Speech |
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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| x Fireside chats |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Radio Broadcasting |
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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| x Harry S. Truman's 1949 inaugural address | Harry S. Truman |
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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| x Newburgh conspiracy |
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The Newburgh Conspiracy was a plot hatched in 1783 near the end of the American Revolutionary War resulting from the fact that many of the officers and men of the Continental Army had not received pay for many years.
With the end of the war and...
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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 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 Vive le Québec libre speech | Charles de Gaulle | Speech |
Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!) was a famous and controversial phrase in a speech delivered by French President Charles de Gaulle in Montreal on July 24, 1967.
De Gaulle was in Canada on an official visit under the pretext of...
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| x Rigdon's July 4th Oration |
An oration delivered by Mormon leader Sidney Rigdon during a 4th of July celebration in Far West, Missouri in 1838. Rigdon was first counselor to, and often spokesman for, Joseph Smith Jr..
The oration was meant as a Mormon "declaration of...
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| x Jesuit Ivy |
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The "Jesuit Ivy" is the title of a commencement speech delivered at and, subsequently, a nickname given to Boston College, a Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The term was coined in a 1956 commencement address by then-Massachusetts...
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| x Le bruit et l'odeur |
"Le Bruit et l'odeur" refers to a speech given in 1991 by Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris who would later become French president; it translates as "noise and smell."
This is an excerpt from the speech:
Comment voulez-vous que le travailleur...
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| x Logan's Lament |
"Logan's Lament" was a speech delivered by a Native American in late colonial times, 1774. The English language version comes down to us, recorded in Thomas Jefferson's own hand.
Chief Logan was a Mingo leader in the 1700's who lived in what is...
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| x Atoms for Peace |
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"Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953.
The United States then launched an "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and...
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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 Pro Cluentio |
Pro Cluentio is a speech by the Roman orator Cicero given in defense of a man named Aulus Cluentius Habitus Minor.
Cluentius, from Larinum in Molise, was accused in 66 BC by his mother of having poisoned his stepfather, Oppianicus the elder;...
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| x Speeches of Weber |
Max Weber influenced on German society and politics in the late 1910s. Some of his speeches and articles made a big impression on his listeners.
Chancellor von Bethmann Holweg founded the German National Committee to give the opposition to large...
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| x Atlanta Compromise |
The Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by black leader Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895.
The title Atlanta Compromise was given to the speech by Booker T....
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| x Infamy Speech |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Speech |
The Presidential Address to Congress of December 8, 1941 (known as the Infamy Speech or Day of Infamy Speech) was delivered at 12:30 p.m. that day to a Joint Session of Congress by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one day after the...
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| x Self-Made Men |
"Self-Made Men" is a famous lecture by Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895). In this speech, which was first delivered in 1859, he gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man.
The concept...
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| x Pound Cake Speech |
The Pound Cake speech was given by Bill Cosby in May 2004, at an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. In it, Cosby was highly critical of some members and subsets of the black community...
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| x On American Taxation |
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"On American Taxation" was a speech given by Edmund Burke in the British House of Commons on April 19, 1774, advocating the full repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767. Parliament had previously repealed five of the six duties of this revenue...
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| x Posen speech |
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The Posen speeches were two secret speeches made by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on October 4 and 6, 1943 in the town hall of Posen (Polish: Poznań), in Nazi occupied Poland. The recordings are the first known documents in which a high-ranking...
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| x Governor-General's Address to the Oireachtas |
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The Governor-General's Address, sometimes called the Governor-General's Speech or the Speech from the Throne, was a formal address delivered by the Governor-General of the Irish Free State to a joint session of Oireachtas of Saorstát Éireann at the...
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| x Apobaterion |
Apobaterion (Greek ἀποβατήριον) may refer to:
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| x Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address |
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The response to the 2006 State of the Union Address was delivered by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine on January 31, 2006, after United States President George W. Bush delivered his 2006 State of the Union address. The theme of Kaine's speech, "A Better...
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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 Marburg speech |
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The Marburg speech (German: Marburger Rede) was an address given by German vice chancellor Franz von Papen at the University of Marburg on June 17, 1934. It is said to be the last speech made publicly, and on a high level, in Germany against Nazism....
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| x Divinity School Address |
The Divinity School Address is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838. At that time, Harvard was the center of academic Unitarian thought. In this address, Emerson...
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| x Pueblo speech |
The Pueblo speech was an address in favour of the League of Nations, given by US President Woodrow Wilson on 25 September 1919. This was the last such address he gave due to ill health. It was held in Pueblo, Colorado hence its name.
In the wake of...
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| x Arsenal of Democracy |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Radio Broadcasting |
"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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| x Look to Norway |
The "Look to Norway" speech by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was given during the handover ceremony of the Royal Norwegian Navy ship HNoMS King Haakon VII at the Washington Navy Yard on 16 September 1942.
In the speech the President said:
"If...
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| x Patton's Speech to the Third Army |
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Patton's Speech to the Third Army was a speech given by General George S. Patton to troops of the U.S. Third Army on June 5, 1944, the day before D-day. Patton delivered variations of the speech on several different occasions to his troops, although...
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| x Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner |
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On April 29, 2006, American comedian Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the Hilton Washington hotel. Colbert's performance consisted...
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| x Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy |
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his first and only inaugural address at 12:51 (ET) Friday, January 20, 1961, immediately after taking the presidential oath of office administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
John Kennedy was nominated as...
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| x Olynthiacs |
The Olynthiacs were three political speeches, all delivered by the Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes. In 349 BC Philip II of Macedon attacked Olynthus, which at the time was an ally of Athens. In the Olynthiacs, delivered in 349 BC,...
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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 Be Ye Men of Valor |
Be Ye Men of Valour is former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill's first appearance speech on national radio, read on May 19, 1940, nine days after he became prime minister, in the middle of World War II.
I speak to you for the...
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| x 2006 Chávez speech at the United Nations |
On 20 September 2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez delivered a speech to the United Nations General Assembly damning U.S. President George W. Bush, with particular focus on foreign policy. While the speech was received with sustained applause in...
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| x Gold Spoon Oration |
The Gold Spoon Oration, also called "The Regal Splendor of the President’s Palace," was a political speech given in the US House of Representatives by Charles Ogle (Whig-PA) on April 14-16, 1840. The speech reviled then-President Martin Van Buren...
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| x Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears |
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears is the first line of a famous and often-quoted speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. The speech is written in iambic pentameter. It is taken from Act III, scene II.
In...
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| x The forgotten people |
The Forgotten People is the name given to a 1942 speech delivered by Robert Menzies, an Australian politician who went on to become the longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia.
The speech, delivered on 22 May 1942, defines and exalts Australia's...
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| x Redfern Park Speech |
The Redfern Park Speech was a famous speech made on December 10, 1992 by then Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating at Redfern Park in Redfern, New South Wales. The speech dealt with the challenges faced by Indigenous Australians.
The speech was...
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| x Paper hanger |
In his Paper hanger talk to 500 priests of his Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, at the Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, in Chicago, Illinois, on May 18, 1937, Cardinal George Mundelein made these observations on the tragic...
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| x Quit India speech |
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Mahatma Gandhi |
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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| x On Protracted War |
On Protracted War (simplified Chinese: 论持久战; traditional Chinese: 論持久戰) is a work comprising a series of speeches by Mao Zedong given from May 26 to June 3, 1938, at the Yenan Association for the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan. In it,...
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| x July Theses |
The July Theses (Romanian: Tezele din iulie) is a name commonly given to a speech delivered by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu on July 6, 1971, before the Executive Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR). Its full name was Propuneri de...
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| x How Long, Not Long |
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"How Long, Not Long" is the popular name given to the public speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the steps of the State Capitol Building in Montgomery, Alabama, after the successful completion of the Selma to Montgomery March on...
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| x The Strenuous Life |
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"The Strenuous Life" is the name of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, Illinois on April 10, 1899. Based upon his personal experiences, he argued that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were ideals to be embraced by Americans for...
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| x The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville |
"The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville" is an article by Warren Buffett promoting value investing, published in the Fall, 1984 issue of Hermes, Columbia Business School magazine. It was based on a speech given on May 17, 1984 at the Columbia...
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| x Lee’s Farewell Address |
Confederate General Robert E. Lee issued his Farewell Address to his Army of Northern Virginia on April 10, 1865, the day after he surrendered the army to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Lee's surrender was instrumental in bringing about the end of the...
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| x Laudatio florentinae urbis |
Laudatio florentinae urbis (Italian for "Praise of the City of Florence") is a panegyric delivered by Leonardo Bruni (c. 1403-4). The panegyric is modeled after Aristides' Panathenaic Oration, particularly with references to Florence's values and...
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| x The Farrer Park address |
The Farrer Park address was an assembly of the surrendered Indian troops of the British Indian Army held at Farrer Park in Singapore on 17 February 1942, a day after the Fall of Singapore. The assembly was marked by a series of three addresses in...
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| x The bomber will always get through |
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The bomber will always get through was a phrase used by Stanley Baldwin in 1932, in the speech "A Fear For The Future" to the British Parliament. The argument was that, regardless of air defences, sufficient raiders will survive to rain destruction...
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| x Art, Truth and Politics |
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"Art, Truth and Politics" (also referred to and published as "Art, Truth & Politics" and Art, Truth and Politics) is the controversial Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at...
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| x Ahiara Declaration |
The Ahiara Declaration: The Principles of the Biafran Revolution, commonly known as the Ahiara Declaration, was a document written by the National Guidance Committee of Biafra and delivered as a speech by Biafran President Emeka Ojukwu in the Biafra...
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