Portal:Speeches/Modern Speeches

See Portal:Modern speeches

• The Citizenship of Women: A Plea for Woman's Suffrage - Kier Hardie, (1905)
• The Man in the Arena: Citizenship in a Republic - Theodore Roosevelt, (23 April 1910)
• The problem of small nations in the European crisis - Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, (1915)
• The Bohemians (Czechs) In The Present Crisis - Charles Pergler, (28 May 1916)
• The story of the Jones County Calf Case - Charles E. Wheeler, (24 June 1920)
• Pan-Asianism - Sun Yat-sen, (1924)
• Scopes Monkey Trial Summation (undelivered) - William Jennings Bryan, (1925)
• Abdication - Edward VIII, (20 January 1936)
• Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat - Winston Churchill, (13 May 1940)
• We shall fight on the beaches - Winston Churchill, (4 June 1940)
• Their Finest Hour - Winston Churchill, (18 June 1940)
• The Arsenal of Democracy - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (29 December 1940)
• Pearl Harbor speech - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (8 December 1941)
• Checkers speech - Richard M. Nixon (23 September 1952)
• The Suez Crisis - Anthony Eden, (31 October 1956)
• Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy, (22 October 1962)
• Ich bin ein Berliner - John F. Kennedy, (26 June 1963)
• The Ballot or the Bullet - Malcolm X, (3 April 1964)
• Resignation - Richard M. Nixon, (8 August 1974)
• Evil Empire speech - Ronald Reagan, (8 June 1982)
• Nelson Mandela's address on his release from prison - Nelson Mandela, (11 February 1990)
• September 11, 2001: Attack on America - George W. Bush, (20 September 2001)
• Hurricane Katrina and Global Warming - Al Gore, (9 September 2005)
• Document Licenses and the Future of Free Culture - Eben Moglen, (4 August, 2006)
• An Honest Government, A Hopeful Future - Barack Obama, (28 August 2006)