Great Speeches is our collection of some of the world's defining speeches; from the iconic words of the great American presidents and world leaders to more recent homegrown orators, what every great speech has in common is not just its impact at the time but its ability to inspire, motivate, move, call to arms or provide an impetus for change, long after it was first delivered. Reading back on these speeches, we gain an insight into a period of history, a particular issue, or a unique vision of the future.
The Art of Future Making by Peter Ellyard
For most of us the world of the future is unforeseen, even unforeseeable...
My Search for the Holy Grail of Immortality by Phillip Emeagwali
Our descendants will have achieved digital immortality in 10,000 years...
Leadership by Barry Jones
Leadership is a quality regrettably lacking in much of our political, academic, business, social and even religious life...
Greetings from Another Planet by Peter Garrett
Whichever direction we take as a country we will need a healthy environment to be firmly in place, of that I am doubly certain. It will also need the sweat and blood and tears, the dreams and the songs, the new tools and the best approaches we can all devise to aid the task...
Inaugural address by John F. Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country...
At the funeral of Lady Diana by Charles Spencer
The unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds...
Nobel Prize acceptance speech by William Faulkner
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail...
Festival of the Supreme Being by Maximilien Robespierre
Our blood flows for the cause of humanity. Behold our prayer. Behold our sacrifices. Behold the worship we offer Thee...
The New Global Mosaic by the Paul Keating
In the business of nation building - which is the business of all of us in public life - we are creatures of our time and circumstances...
For a Declaration of War by Franklin D. Roosevelt
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory...
At the Bali Memorial Service by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
These are the core values that define our civilised ways of life. These are the values that no terrorist bombs can ever take away from us...
On Women's Right to Vote by Susan B. Anthony
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void...
Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
Worlds at War by Winston Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
Berlin Address by John F. Kennedy
Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. Forbid it, Almighty God!
Inaugural address by Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign...
 Hundreds of thousands gather on the National Mall, Washington D.C., for the inaugural address of Barack Obama, the 56th President of the United States of America, on January 20, 2009 |
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