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This is a list of speeches that have gained notability. They are listed in chronological order.

Contents 1 List of famous speeches 1.1 Before 1900 1.2 After 1900 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] List of famous speeches

[edit] Before 1900

• 399 B.C.: Apology of Socrates – Plato
• 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's Renunciation – Galileo Galilei
• 1741: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God – Jonathan Edwards
• 1775: Give me liberty or give me death – Patrick Henry
• 1789: Speech to the House of Commons – William Wilberforce
• 1796: 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

[edit] 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: 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: A date which will live in infamy – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 1942: Quit India speech – Mahatma Gandhi
• 1943: Do you want Total War? – Joseph Goebbels
• 1944: The D-Day Prayer – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• 1944: Paris liberated – Charles de Gaulle
• 1945: Imperial Rescript on Surrender – Hirohito
• 1946: Sinews of Peace (aka the "Iron Curtain Speech") – Winston Churchill
• 1947: Tryst with destiny – Jawaharlal Nehru
• 1948: 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 – Harold Macmillan
• 1961: Eisenhower's Farewell Address – Dwight D. Eisenhower (see also military-industrial complex)
• 1961: 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: 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 – Charles de Gaulle
• 1967: Time to Break Silence – Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1968: Rivers of Blood speech – Enoch Powell
• 1973: The great avenues will open again – Salvador Allende
• 1974: Richard Nixon's resignation speech – Richard M. Nixon
• 1981: Tomorrow, you will vote the abolition of the death sentence – Robert Badinter
• 1987: Tear down this wall – Ronald Reagan
• 1987: 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: 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 – John Paul II
• 2001: 9/11 Address to the Nation – George W. Bush
• 2002: Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs – Jacques Chirac
• 2003: Iraq War eve-of-battle speech – Tim Collins
• 2006: "Chocolate City" speech – Ray Nagin
• 2008: A More Perfect Union – Barack Obama

[edit] See also

• Speech
• Public speaking
• Open letter
• Communication
• Wikisource Collection of Speeches
• Speeches of Weber

[edit] External links

• A Collection of historical speeches from many great leaders - JFK, MLK, Gandhi, Churchill and others
• Vital Speeches of the Day
• American Rhetoric
• Famous speeches by Presidents, Prime Ministers and Martin Luther King
• The History Channel - Great Speeches
• Great Speeches Collection at The History Place
• The Speeches in Acts - Their Content, Context, and Concerns by Marion L. Soards
• Speeches That Changed the World by Owen Collins
• Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century