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Speeches - Indexed by Speech Topic: P - S

This speech collection is organized in alphabetical order by speech subject, theme, or topic.

If the topic is the same, for example Inauguration Address, the speeches are further indexed in chronological order.


 

Paris Liberated

Charles de Gaulle - Paris Liberated 1944

Charles de Gaulle
August 25, 1944, delivered at Paris, France

     
     
     

Paris Libéré

Charles de Gaulle - Paris Liberated 1944

Charles de Gaulle
August 25, 1944, delivered at Paris, France

     
     
     

Patria o Muerte

Che Guevara speaking at the UN 1964

Che Guevara
December 11, 1964, delivered at New York City, N.Y.

     
     
     

Peace in Our Time

Neville Chamberlain - Speech

Neville Chamberlain
September 30, 1938, delivered at London, England

     
     
     

Perils of Indifference

Elie Wiesel - Speech

Elie Wiesel
April 12, 1999, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Annual Plymouth Oration

John Quincy Adams 1767-1848

John Quincy Adams
December 22, 1802, delivered at Plymouth,  Massachusetts

     
     
     

Plymouth Oration

Daniel Webster - Speech

Daniel Webster
December 22, 1820, delivered at Plymouth,  Massachusetts

     
     
     

Politics as an Art

Robert Menzies - Speech

Robert Menzies
November 28, 1948, published in New York Times Magazine

     
     
     

Proclamation to the German Nation - Opening Remarks

Joseph Goebbels - Sportpalast Berlin - February 10, 1933

Joseph Goebbels
February 10, 1933, delivered at Berlin, Germany

     
     
     

Proclamation to the German Nation

Adolf Hitler
February 10, 1933, delivered at Berlin, Germany

     
     
     

Quarantine the Aggressor

FDR 1937

Franklin D. Roosevelt
October 5, 1937, delivered at Chicago, Illinois

     
     
     

Quit India

Mohandas Gandhi
August 8, 1942, delivered at Bombay, India

     
     
     

Resignation Speech

George Washington - Speech

George Washington
December 23, 1783, delivered at Annapolis, Maryland

     
     
     

Resignation Speech

Nixon's Resignation Speech, August 8, 1974

Richard M. Nixon
August 8, 1974, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Resignation Speech

Geoffrey Howe - Speech

Geoffrey Howe
November 13, 1990, delivered at London, UK

     
     
     

Returning Fire

Adolf Hitler - Speech

Adolf Hitler
September 1, 1939, delivered at Berlin, Germany

     
     
     

Rivers of Blood

Enoch Powell - Speech

Enoch Powell
April 20, 1968, delivered at Birmingham, England

     
     
     

Sanitas Sanitatum, Omnia Sanitas

Benjamin Disraeli - Speech

Benjamin Disraeli
April 3, 1872, delivered at Manchester, England

     
     
     

School House Door Speech

George C. Wallace
June 11, 1963, delivered at Tuscaloosa, Alabama

     
     
     

Segregation Forever

George C. Wallace
January 14, 1963, delivered at Montgomery, Alabama

     
     
     

Sermon on the Mound

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher
May 21, 1988, delivered at Edinburgh, United Kingdom

     
     
     

Sermon on the Mount

Jesus - Sermon on the Mount

Jesus Christ
around AD 30, delivered in Galilee, ancient Palestine

     
     
     

Sermon to the Birds

St Francis of Assisi - Sermon to the Birds

St Francis of Assisi
Around 1220, delivered near Bevagna, Italy

     
     
     

Share the Wealth

Huey Long - Speech

Huey P. Long
February 5, 1934, put on record at Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Jonathan Edwards - Speech

Jonathan Edwards
July 8, 1741, delivered at Enfield, Connecticut

     
     
     

Social Security

Roosevelt - Speech

Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 17, 1935, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Solitude of Self

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Speech

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
January 18, 1892, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Spanish Armada Speech

Elizabeth I - Spanish Armada Speech

Elizabeth I
1588, delivered at Tilbury, Essex, England

     
     
     

Speech from the Dock

Robert Emmet - Speech

Robert Emmet
September 1803, delivered at Dublin, then Great Britain

     
     
     

Strength and Decency

Theodore Roosevelt - Speech 1903

Theodore Roosevelt
August 16, 1903, delivered at Oyster Bay, NY

     
     
     

Sur les principes de morale politique

Robespierre - Speech

Maximilien Robespierre
February 5, 1794, delivered at Paris, France

     
     
     

Surrender Speech

Chief Joseph - Surrender Speech 1877

Chief Joseph
October 5, 1877, delivered at the Bear Paw Mountains, Montana Territory

     
     
     

Surrender Speech

Hirohito
August 14, 1945, recorded in Tokyo, Japan

     
     
     

 

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Frequently Viewed Speeches

Socrates: Apology - 399 BC
Socrates: Apology
399 BC

Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address - 1863
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
1863

Winston Churchill: Their Finest Hour - 1940
Winston Churchill: Their Finest Hour
1940

Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream - 1963
Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream
1963


 

 






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