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!
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- Mike Rowe: Dirty Work
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, June 2012
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989
- U.S. President Richard Nixon: Resignation Speech, 1974
- Martin Luther King: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Barack Obama: Victory Speech, November 2012
- Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Speech, Westminster, March 2012
- Tom Cruise / Jack Nicholson: A Few Good Men
- Admiral William H. McRaven: Commencement Address, University of Texas at Austin, 2014