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!
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Michael D. Higgins: Inauguration Speech
- Martin Luther King: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh (1984)
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Conan O’Brien: Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, 2011
- Bernie Saunders, “Fighting Oligarchy”, Folsom, April 15, 2025
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Hugh Gallagher: College Application Essay
- Larry Page: University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009