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!
- Larry Page: University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- Winston Churchill: We will fight on the beaches
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)
- U.S. President Richard Nixon: Resignation Speech, 1974
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- Michael Douglas: “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” (2010)
- Hugh Gallagher: College Application Essay
- Bernie Saunders, “Fighting Oligarchy”, Folsom, April 15, 2025
- Martin Luther King: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, Pretoria, 1994