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’
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- Mitt Romney: Republican Convention Speech, August 2012
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Marianne Williamson: Our Deepest Fear. (‘Coach Carter,’ 2005)
- John F. Kennedy: We Choose to go to the Moon
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- Barack Obama: Eulogy at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, June 2015
- Barack Obama: Cairo, June 2009