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14th Century BC
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The Ten Commandments
Speaker:
Moses
Delivered at Mount Sinai, Sinai Peninsula,
Egypt |
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431 BC
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Funeral Oration
Speaker:
Pericles
Delivered at Athens, Greece |
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399 BC
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Apology (according to
Plato)
Apology (according to
Xenophon)
Speaker:
Socrates
Delivered at Athens, Greece |
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341 BC
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The Third Philippic
Speaker:
Demosthenes
Delivered at Athens, Greece |
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330 BC
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On the Crown
Speaker:
Demosthenes
Delivered at Athens, Greece |
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324 BC
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Depart!
Speaker:
Alexander the Great
Delivered at Opis, Mesopotamia |
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63 BC,
November 8
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Against Catiline I -
English
In Catilinam I - Latin
Speaker:
Cicero
Delivered at Rome |
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around AD 30
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Sermon on the Mount
Speaker:
Jesus Christ
Delivered in Galilee, ancient Palestine |
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632
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Farewell Sermon
Speaker:
Muhammad
Delivered at Mecca, Middle East |
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November 27,
1095
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Against the Infidels
Speaker:
Pope Urban II
Delivered at Clermont, France |
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1220
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Sermon to the Birds
Speaker:
St Francis of Assisi
Delivered near Bevagna, Italy |
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1588
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Spanish Armada Speech
Speaker:
Elizabeth I
Delivered at Tilbury, Essex, England |
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1601,
November 30
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Golden Speech
Speaker:
Elizabeth I
Delivered at London, England |
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1649, January
30
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Execution Speech
Speaker:
Charles I
Delivered at London, England |
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1653,
April 20
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Dismissal of the Rump
Parliament
Speaker:
Delivered at London, England |
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1741,
July 8
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Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God
Speaker:
Jonathan Edwards
Delivered at Enfield, Connecticut |
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1775,
March 23
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Give Me Liberty or
Give Me Death
Speaker:
Patrick Henry
Delivered at Richmond, Virginia |
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1783,
March 15
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Speech at Newburgh
Speaker:
George Washington
Delivered at Newburgh, New York |
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1783,
December 23
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Resignation Speech
Speaker:
George Washington
Delivered at Annapolis, Maryland |
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1787,
September 17
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Address to the
Constitutional Convention
Speaker:
Benjamin Franklin
Delivered at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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1789, April
30
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First Inaugural
Address
Speaker:
George Washington
Delivered at New York City, NY |
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1789,
May 12
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Abolition
Speaker:
William Wilberforce
Delivered at London, England |
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1793, March 4
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Second Inaugural
Address
Speaker:
George Washington
Delivered at Philadelphia, PA |
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1794,
February 5
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The Virtue of Terror -
English
The Virtue of Terror -
French
Speaker:
Maximilien Robespierre
Delivered at Paris, France |
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1794,
June 8
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Festival of the
Supreme Being - English
Festival of the
Supreme Being - French
Speaker:
Maximilien Robespierre
Delivered at Paris, France |
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1796,
September 17
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Farewell Address
Speaker:
George Washington
Published in
Philadelphia’s
American Daily Advertiser. |
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1797, March 4
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Inaugural Address
Speaker:
John Adams
Delivered at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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