Portal:Speeches/Early Modern Speeches

See Portal:Early modern speeches

• Dissolution of the Long Parliament - Oliver Cromwell, (20 April 1653)
• Sanquhar Declaration - Richard Cameron, 1680
• The Standing Army - William Pitt the Elder, (4 February 1738)
• Give me liberty or give me death - Patrick Henry, (23 March 1775)
• Speech on the Rebellion in the American Colonies - George III, (27 October 1775)
• Disapproving and accepting the Constitution - Benjamin Franklin, (17 September 1787)
• On the Horrors of the Slave Trade - William Wilberforce, (12 May 1789)
• Farewell Address - George Washington, (17 September 1796)
• War Message to Congress - James Madison, (1 June 1812)
• Catholic Emancipation - Duke of Wellington, (2 April 1829)
• The Dangers which Menace States - Robert Peel, (3 March 1831)
• Copyright Law - Thomas Babington Macaulay, (5 February, 1841)
• What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass, (5 July 1852)
• To Arms - Giuseppe Garibaldi, (1860)
• Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln, (19 November 1863)
• On Women's Rights to Vote - Susan B Anthony, (1873)
• Universal Religion - Keshub Chandra Sen, (1870)
• On the Death of General Gordon - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, (20 July 1885)
• The address of the president of the American Bar Association at their eighth annual meeting - John W. Stevenson, (19 August 1885)
• Irish Home Rule Speech - William Ewart Gladstone, (7 June 1886)
• Lessons of the Hour, by Frederick Douglass (1894)
• The True Conception of Empire - Joseph Chamberlain, (31 March 1897)
• The World's Famous Orations (Ireland)