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Speeches - Indexed by Speech Topic: U - Z

This speech collection is organized in alphabetical order by speech subject, theme, or topic.


 

Vive le Québec Libre !

Charles de Gaulle - Speech Canada 1967

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

     
     
     

Votes for Women

Mark Twain - Votes for Women 1901

Mark Twain
January 20, 1901, delivered at New York, N.Y.

     
     
     

War Message

Woodrow Wilson - Speech

Woodrow Wilson
April 2, 1917, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Watergate Address, First
(No Whitewash at the White House)

Nixon - Speech

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

     
     
     

Watergate Address, Second

Nixon - Speech

Richard M. Nixon
August 15, 1973, aired from Washington D.C.

     
     
     

We Cannot Make Land

Red Jacket - Speech

Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)
Summer of 1819, delivered near Buffalo, New York

     
     
     

We Demand Justice

Clemens von Galen - Speech

Clemens von Galen
July 13, 1941, delivered at Munster, Germany

     
     
     

We Live in a Contaminated Moral Environment

Vaclav Havel - Speech

Vaclav Havel
January 1, 1990, delivered at Prague, Czechoslovakia

     
     
     

We Never Quarrel About Religion

Red Jacket - Speech

Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)
Summer of 1805, delivered in the Six Nations Territory, Upper New York State

     
     
     

We Shall Fight on the Beaches

Winston Churchill - Speech

Winston Churchill
June 4, 1940, delivered at London, UK

     
     
     

We Shall Overcome

Lyndon B. Johnson - Speech

Lyndon B. Johnson
March 15, 1965, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

Weapons for Squalid and Trivial Ends

Aneurin Bevan - Speech

Aneurin Bevan
December 5, 1956, delivered at London, UK

     
     
     

Wellesley Student Commencement Speech

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Speech

Hillary D. Rodham
May 31, 1969, delivered at Wellesley, MA

     
     
     

Wellesley Commencement Address

Barbara Bush
June 1, 1990, delivered at Wellesley, MA

     
     
     

What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States

Mary E. Church Terrell - Speech

Mary E. Church Terrell
October 10, 1906, delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (The Hypocrisy of American Slavery)

Frederick Douglass - Speech

Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852, delivered at Rochester, New York

     
     
     

When Will I Be Blown Up?

William Faulkner - Speech

William Faulkner
December 10, 1950, delivered at Stockholm, Sweden

     
     
     

Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?

Barbara Jordan - Speech

Barbara C. Jordan
July 12, 1976, delivered at New York, N.Y.

     
     
     

Wind of Change

Harold Macmillan - Speech

Harold Macmillan
February 3, 1960, delivered at Cape Town, South Africa

     
     
     

Wir Fordern Gerechtigkeit

Clemens von Galen - Speech

Clemens von Galen
July 13, 1941, delivered at Munster, Germany

     
     
     

Wollt Ihr Den Totalen Krieg?

Joseph Goebbels - Speech

Joseph Goebbels
February 18, 1943, delivered at Berlin, Germany

     
     
     

Women in War

Robert Menzies - Speech

Robert Menzies
February 20, 1942, broadcast from Sydney, Australia

     
     
     

Women Will Not Stop

Bella Abzug - Speech

Bella Abzug
September 12, 1995, delivered at Beijing, China

     
     
     

Women's Rights Are Human Rights

Hillary Clinton - Beijing 1995

Hillary Rodham Clinton
September 5, 1995, delivered at Beijing, China

     
     
     

Wonders of Science

Albert Einstein speech 1930

Albert Einstein
August 22, 1930, delivered at Berlin, Germany

     
     
     

World Peace (Commencement Address at American University)

JFK - World Peace 1963

John F. Kennedy
June 10, 1963, delivered at Washington DC

     
     
     

Wrath of Grapes Boycott

Cesar Chavez - Speech

Cesar E. Chavez
May 1986, delivered at various places in the U.S.

     
     
     

Wunder der Wissenschaft - German

Albert Einstein speech 1930

Albert Einstein
August 22, 1930, delivered at Berlin, Germany

     
     
     

Yad Vashem Speech

Pope John Paul II - Speech

Pope John Paul II
March 23, 2000, delivered in Jerusalem, Israel

     
     
     

Yes, We Can

Senator Obama - Yes, We Can - New Hampshire - 2008

Barack Obama
January 8, 2008, delivered at Nashua, New Hampshire

     
     
     

You've Got to Find What You Love

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Steve Jobs
June 12, 2005, delivered at Stanford, CA

 

 

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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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