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!
- Bill Gates: Harvard, June 2007
- Mary Schmich: Wear Sunscreen (1997)
- Jawaharlal Nehru: “India will awake” 1947
- Milton Friedman: Drugs Should Be Legalized (1991)
- Barack Obama: The Economy. Osawatomie, Kansas: December 2011
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Sharjah: Air Outpost (1937)
- John F. Kennedy: We Choose to go to the Moon
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”