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list of speeches has been chosen by Kevin Ryan to
represent what he considers are some of the the best
speeches from the last one hundred and fifty years or so. It is
continually updated to remain as topical as
possible. The speeches - some of them quite long -
are presented in full to allow you to appreciate the
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sections of a speech may have become famous through
extensive quoting and these well known phrases are
shown in red.
These speeches provide excellent examples for
assisting your own speech writing as well as an
endless array of well known - and not so well known
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- Abraham
Lincoln - Gettysberg Address 19 November 1863
- Susan
B Anthony - Women's Right of to
Vote, 1872
- Huey
Long (Louisiana Senator and Governor) -
"Share-the-Wealth",
Washington, D.C., 11 December 1934.
- Winston
Churchill - First Speech as Prime Minister
("I have nothing to offer but blood,
toil, tears and sweat") British House of
Commons, 13 May 1940
- Winston
Churchill - "We Shall Fight on the
Beaches" British
House of Commons 4
June 1940
- Winston
Churchill - "Never give in, never, never,
never" Harrow School, 29 October 1941.
- Ben
Chifley - ("The Light on the Hill")
NSW Labor Party Conference 12 June 1949
- John
F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address
("Ask not what your country can do for
you..."),
Washington, D.C., 20 January 1961.
- Rev. Martin Luther King,
Jr. - "I
Have a Dream" Washington, D.C.,
August 28, 1963.
- Robert
F. Kennedy - tells of Martin Luther
King, Jr.'s slaying, Indianapolis, 4
April 1968.
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- James
Lavenson - Famous speech about the hospitality
industry: 'Think Strawberries' 1975
- Ronald
Reagan - after the Space Shuttle Challenger
Explosion, Washington, D.C., 28 January, 1986.
- Mary
Fisher - "The Whisper of AIDS,"
Republican National Convention Address,
Houston, 19 August, 1992.
- Hillary
Rodham Clinton - at the fourth UN World
Conference on Women, Beijing, China, 5
September
1993.
- Paul
Keating - Funeral
Service of the Unknown Australian
Soldier, Canberra, 11 November 1993
- Nelson
Mandela - Inaugural Speech, Republic of South
Africa Buildings, Pretoria, 10 May 1994
- Benazir
Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan,
Speaks about Male Domination of Women,
Beijing, 4 September 1995
- Charles
Earl Spencer -
Eulogy for Princess Diana, London, 6 September
1997
- George
W Bush - after the World Trade Centre attack,
11 September 2001
- The
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Cary -
Eulogy for Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother,
9 April 2002
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