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!
- U.S. President Richard Nixon: Resignation Speech, 1974
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Corazon Aquino: Address to Joint Session of US Congress, September 1986
- Groucho Marx: “Duck Soup” (1933)
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Carlos P. Romulo: “I am a Filipino”
- David Cameron: Acceptance speech, 2010
- Queen Elizabeth II: Dublin, 2011