Welcome
Welcome to this site which features videos of well-known speeches alongside transcripts of the speeches. The site is for people who:
- enjoy listening to speeches
- want inspiration or ideas
- learn English and want to see exact transcripts
- want to know more about our recent history,
- are addicted to Youtube
- want an easy place to find out if someone really said something!
Let’s start!
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, Pretoria, 1994
- Conan O’Brien: Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, 2011
- Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms in Education
- Queen Elizabeth II: Dublin, 2011
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- US President Lyndon B. Johnson: War on Poverty, 1964
- King George VI: September 3, 1939 (‘The King’s Speech’)
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- Milton Friedman: Drugs Should Be Legalized (1991)
- Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Speech, Westminster, March 2012