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Speeches - Indexed by Speech Topic: J - O

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.


 

Jump First and Jump Far on Climate Change

Mohamed Nasheed - Maldives

Mohamed Nasheed
September 22, 2009, delivered at New York, N.Y.

     
     
     

Justice for Ireland

Daniel O'Connell Speech

Daniel O'Connell
February 4, 1836, delivered at London, United Kingdom

     
     
     

Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention

Ann Richards July 18, 1988 Keynote Address DNC Atlanta Georgia

Ann Richards
July 18, 1988, delivered at Atlanta, Georgia

     
     
     

Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention

Barack Obama - Keynote Address DNC - Boston - July 27, 2004

Barack Obama
July 27, 2004, delivered at Boston, Massachusetts

     
     
     

Khrushchev's Secret Speech

Khrushchev's Secret Speech

Nikita Khrushchev
February 25, 1956, delivered at Moscow, U.S.S.R.

     
     
     

La Fête de l'Être Suprême

Robespierre - Speech

Maximilien Robespierre
June 8, 1794, delivered at Paris, France

     
     
     

La Flamme de la Résistance Française

Charles de Gaulle - The Flame of French Resistance

Charles de Gaulle
June 18, 1940, broadcast from London, UK

     
     
     

La Historia Me Absolverá

Fidel Castro - Speech

Fidel Castro
October 16, 1953, delivered at Santiago de Cuba

     
     
     

Last Lecture

Randy Pausch - Speech

Randy Pausch
September 18, 2007, delivered at Pittsburgh, P.A.

     
     
     

Lend-Lease

Roosevelt - Speech

Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 17, 1940, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Let Us Continue

Lyndon B. Johnson - Speech 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson
November 27, 1963, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Lincoln Dinner Address

Theodore Roosevelt - Speech

Theodore Roosevelt
February 13, 1905, delivered at New York, NY

     
     
     

Long Live Free Quebec!

Charles de Gaulle - Speech Canada 1967

Charles de Gaulle
July 24, 1967, delivered at Montreal, Canada

     
     
     

Love Begins at Home

Mother Teresa - Speech

Mother Teresa
December 11, 1979, delivered at Oslo, Norway

     
     
     

Maiden Speech

F.E. Smith - Speech 1906

F.E. Smith
March 12, 1906, delivered at London, UK

     
     
     

Maritime Protection

Josiah Quincy 1772-1864

Josiah Quincy
January 25, 1812, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Message to the Grass Roots

Malcolm X
November 10, 1963, delivered at Detroit, Michigan

     
     
     

Nashe Delo Pravoe (Наше дело правое)

Molotov - Speech

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
June 22, 1941, aired in the Soviet Union

     
     
     

Never Give In

Orator Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill
October 29, 1941, delivered at London, UK

     
     
     

Newburgh Speech

George Washington - Speech

George Washington
March 15, 1783, delivered at Newburgh, New York

     
     
     

No Whitewash at the White House

Nixon - Speech

Richard Nixon
April 30, 1973, aired from Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Nobel Lecture

Mikhail Gorbachev - Speech

Mikhail Gorbachev
June 5, 1991, delivered at Oslo, Norway

     
     
     

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

MLK - Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr.
December 10, 1964, delivered at Oslo, Norway

     
     
     

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Mikhail Gorbachev - Speech

Mikhail Gorbachev
December 10, 1990, delivered by Andrej Kovaljov at Oslo, Norway

     
     
     

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Nelson Mandela 1993

Nelson Mandela
December 10, 1993, delivered at Oslo, Norway

     
     
     

Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial Address

Bill Clinton - Speech

Bill Clinton
April 23, 1995, delivered at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

     
     
     

Old Soldiers Never Die

Douglas MacArthur - Old Soldiers Never Die Speech - 1951

Douglas MacArthur
April 19, 1951, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

On Ending Fast

Cesar Chavez - Speech

Cesar Chavez
March 10, 1968, delivered at Delano, California

     
     
     

On Sumner and the South

Lucius Q.C. Lamar 1825-1893 "On Sumner and the South" delivered April 25, 1874

Lucius Q.C. Lamar
April 25, 1874, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

On the Bank Crisis
(First Fireside Chat)

Franklin D. Roosevelt - Fireside Chat

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
March 12, 1933, delivered at Washington DC

     
     
     

On the Crown

Demosthenes - Speech

Demosthenes
330 BC, delivered at Athens, Greece

     
     
     

On the Death of Martin Luther King Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy
April 4, 1968, delivered at Indianapolis, Indiana

     
     
     

On the Death of Osama Bin Laden

On the Death of Osama Bin Laden 2011

Barack Obama
May 1, 2011, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

On the Media

Spiro T. Agnew - Speech

Spiro T. Agnew
November 13, 1969, delivered at Des Moines, Iowa

     
     
     

On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women

Matilda Joslyn Gage - Speech

Matilda Joslyn Gage
Delivered in 1871

     
     
     

On the Vietnam War

John Kerry - Speech

John Kerry
April 22, 1971, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

On Women's Right to Vote

Susan B. Anthony - Speech

Susan B. Anthony
1873, delivered in the state of New York

     
     
     

Onward and Upward
(Open Address to Congress)

Carrie Chapman Catt - Speech

Carrie Chapman Catt
December 12-15, 1917, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Our Cause Is Just

Molotov - Speech

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
June 22, 1941, aired in the Soviet Union

     
     
     

Our Fellow Savages

Mark Twain - Votes for Women 1901

Mark Twain
1866, delivered on Hawaii

     
     
     

 

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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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