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!
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Carlos P. Romulo: “I am a Filipino”
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
- Conan O’Brien: Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, 2011
- Tom Cruise / Jack Nicholson: A Few Good Men
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Lady Gaga: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “Prime Rib” Maine 2010
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Bono: Commencement Address, Penn State
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, June 2012