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!
- Lupita Nyong’o: Best Supporting Actress, Oscars, 2014
- Barack Obama: Eulogy at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, June 2015
- Jawaharlal Nehru: “India will awake” 1947
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- John F Kennedy Visits Ireland: British Pathé (1963)
- Michael D. Higgins: Inauguration Speech
- JB Pritzer: New Hampshire, April 27, 2025
- Groucho Marx: “Duck Soup” (1933)
- Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator: 1940
- Conan O’Brien: Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, 2011