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!
- Al Pacino: ‘Any Given Sunday’ (1999)
- Benjamin Carson, National Prayer Breakfast, 2013
- Barack Obama: Cairo, June 2009
- King George VI: September 3, 1939 (‘The King’s Speech’)
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, Pretoria, 1994
- Robin Cook: Resignation Speech as UK Foreign Secretary, 2003
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Bernie Saunders, “Fighting Oligarchy”, Folsom, April 15, 2025
- John F Kennedy Visits Ireland: British Pathé (1963)
- Tony Blair: Labour Party Conference, 2006