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Chief Seattle’s Speech
Chief Seattle made the speech in the year 1854 in response to the Governor’s proposal of buying the Natives’ land. He favours the respect of the land rights of his people. He provoked the people by his speech over protecting and caring his ancestral land. Following is the complete text of the speech. Yonder sky…
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat by Winston Churchill
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat is Winston Churchill’s first speech as Prime Minister. It was delivered to the House of Commons on 13 May 1940. Here is the complete text of the speech. I beg to move, That this House welcomes the formation of a Government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation…
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Tryst with Destiny by Jawaharlal Nehru
Tryst with Destiny was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament, on the eve of India’s Independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947. Here is the complete text of the speech. Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and…
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Florence Kelley’s Speech on Child Labor and Women’s Suffrage
Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. She delivered the following speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22,1905. We have, in this country, two million children under the age…
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Cornerstone Speech by Alexander H. Stephens
The Cornerstone Speech was given by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861. The speech defended slavery, explained the fundamental differences between the constitutions of the Confederacy and that of the United States, enumerated contrasts between U.S. and Confederate ideologies, and laid out the Confederacy’s causes…
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The Hypocrisy of American Slavery (Speech) by Frederick Douglass
The Hypocrisy of American Slavery (also known as What to the Slave is the Fourth July?) speech was delivered by Frederick Douglass in the Corinthian Hall at Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852. Here is the complete text of the speech. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without…
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Speech by Patrick Henry
Give me liberty, or give me death! is a speech by Patrick Henry made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. Here is the complete text of the speech. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the…
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House Divided Speech by Abraham Lincoln
The House Divided Speech was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination as that state’s US senator. Here is the complete text of the speech. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention. If…
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Checkers Speech by Richard Nixon
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States, California Senator Richard Nixon. Here is the complete text of the speech. My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a…
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Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Queen Elizabeth I
The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury was delivered by Queen Elizabeth I on 9 August, 1588 to the land forces assembled at Tilbury in Essex in preparation to repel a possible invasion by the Spanish Armada. Here is the complete text of the speech. My loving people. We have been persuaded by some that…