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Unforgettable Speeches

Need some inspiration before that oral presentation coming up after Easter? Then, check out the ABC site on Unforgettable Speeches, a project where listeners to to the ABC nominated their most unforgettable speech ever.

And, here’s the top twenty:

  • 1. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream, 28 August 1963, Washington DC.
  • 2. Jesus. Sermon on the Mount. c27.
  • 3. Paul Keating. The Redfern Address, 10 December 1992, Redfern Park.
  • 4. Winston Churchill. We Shall Fight on the Beaches, 4 June 1940, House of Commons.
  • 5. Abraham Lincoln. Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863.
  • 6.
    John F. Kennedy. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you
    can do for your country. Inaugural speech 20 January 1961, Washington
    DC.
  • 7. Earl Spencer. Funeral Oration for Diana Princess of Wales, 6 September 1997, Westminster Abbey.
  • 8.
    Henry V Act IV Scene III. Author William Shakespeare c 1599. St
    Crispin’s Day speech made before the Battle of Agincourt (which
    occurred on 25 October 1415).
  • 9. Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal, 11 November 1975, Parliament House steps.
  • 10.
    Queen Elizabeth I. I have the heart and stomach of a king, 9 August
    1588. (Address to the troops at Tilbury as the Spanish Armada
    approached Britain.)
  • 11. Nelson Mandela. An Ideal for Which I am Prepared to Die. Statement at trial, 20 April 1964, Johannesburg.
  • 12. Mahatma Gandhi. Non-violence is the first article of my faith, 23 March 1922, Ahmadabad.
  • 13. Socrates. Statement at trial condemning him to death, 399BC, Athens.
  • 14. Robert Kennedy. Address to National Union of South African Students, 7 June 1966, Cape Town University.
  • 15.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton. We Now Demand Our Right To Vote, Keynote
    Address to Women’s Rights Convention, 19 July 1848 New York.
  • 16. William Wilberforce. Abolition of Slavery, 12 May 1789, House of Commons.
  • 17. Alfred Deakin. These are the times that try men’s souls, 15 March 1898, Bendigo.
  • 18. Pericles. Funeral Oration for the fallen of the Peloponnesian War, 431 BC.
  • 19.
    Mark Antony. Friends, Romans, Countrymen Lend Me Your Ears, Julius
    Caesar Act III Scene II. Author William Shakespeare c1599.
  • 20. Ben Chifley. The Light on the Hill, 12 June 1949, ALP Conference.
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