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Introduction
c. 399 BC: Socrates: “I know that I know nothing”
c. 326 BC: Alexander The Great: Speech by the Hydaspes River
63 BC: Cicero: “O tempora! O mores!”
c. 31 AD: Jesus Christ: Sermon on the Mount
1305: William Wallace: “I have slain the English”
1588: Elizabeth I: “I have the heart and stomach of a king” 24
1649: Charles I: Execution speech
1775: Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
1789: William Wilberforce: Abolition of slavery speech
1794: Maximilien Robespierre: Justification for the “reign of terror”
1796: George Washington: Farewell Address
1829: Andrew Jackson: Speech to Congress on “Indian removal”
1851: Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a woman?”
1852: Frederick Douglass: “What to the slave is the 4th of July?”
1860: Thomas Henry Huxley: Oxford evolution debate
1861: Alexander Stephens: Cornerstone speech, justifying the confederacy
1863: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
1865: Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
1877: Chief Joseph: Surrender speech
1895: Oscar Wilde: “The love that dare not speak its name”
1901: Mark Twain: Votes for Women
1913: Emmeline Pankhurst: “Freedom or Death” speech
1915: Patrick Pearse: “Ireland unfree shall never be at peace”
1917: Vladimir Lenin: “Power to the Soviets” speech
1918: Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points
1931: Mahatma Gandhi: “My Spiritual Message”
1933: Adolf Hitler: First speech as chancellor of Germany
1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
1936: Edward VIII: Abdication speech
1938: Neville Chamberlain: “Peace for our time”
1939: Lou Gehrig: “The luckiest man on the face of this earth”
1939: Adolf Hitler: Obersalzberg speech
1939: George VI: Declaration of war against Germany
1939: Charles Lindbergh: Urging the US to stay neutral in WWII
1940: Winston Churchill: “Blood, toil, tears and sweat”
1940: Winston Churchill: “We shall fight on the beaches”
1940: Winston Churchill: “This was their finest hour”
1940: General de Gaulle: Appeal of June 18
1941: Vyacheslav Molotov: Radio speech on Nazi invasion
1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt: “A date which will live in infamy”
1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower: Announcing the Allies had landed in France
1946: Emperor Hirohito: Denouncing divine status
1946: Winston Churchill: “An iron curtain has descended”
1946: Albert Speer: Nuremberg Trial Testimony
1947: Jawaharlal Nehru: “Tryst with Destiny”
1948: David Ben-Gurion: Israeli Declaration of Independence
1948: Aneurin Bevan: Speech on the founding of the NHS
1949: Chairman Mao Zedong: “The Chinese people have stood up!”
1951: Eva Perón: Speech to the descamisados
1953: Queen Elizabeth II: Coronation speech
1954: Earl Warren: Racial segregation US schools ruling
1956: Nikita Khruschev: “Cult of the individual”
1960: Harold Macmillan: “The wind of change is blowing through this continent”
1960: Elvis Presley: “Home from the Army” press conference
1960: Fidel Castro: United Nations’ speech
1960: Mervyn Griffith-Jones: Lady Chatterley’s Lover Obscenity Trial
1961: John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
1962: John F. Kennedy: “We choose to go to the moon”
1963: John F. Kennedy: “Ich bin ein Berliner”
1963: Martin Luther King Jr.: “I have a dream”
1963: Harold Wilson: The White Heat of Technology
1964: Muhammad Ali: “I am the greatest!”
1964: Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet”
1964: Nelson Mandela: “An ideal for which I am prepared to die”
1966: John Lennon: “We’re more popular than Jesus” apology
1967: Timothy Leary: “Turn on, tune in, drop out”
1967: Earl Warren: Loving vs. Virginia
1967: Eugene McCarthy: Denouncing the Vietnam War
1968: Martin Luther King Jr.: “I’ve been to the mountaintop”
1968: Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood
1969: Neil Armstrong: “One giant leap for mankind”
1969: Max B. Yasgur: “This is America and they are going to have their festival”
1970: Betty Friedan: Strike for Equality
1971: John Kerry: Vietnam Veterans Against the War
1973: Harry Blackmun: Roe vs. Wade
1974: Richard Nixon: Announcement of Resignation
1978: Harvey Milk: “You have to give people hope”
1980: Margaret Thatcher: “The lady’s not for turning”
1987: Ronald Reagan: “Tear down this wall!”
1990: Nelson Mandela: “We have waited too long for our freedom”
1991: Mikhail S. Gorbachev: Farewell Address
1993: Maya Angelou: “On the Pulse of Morning”
1997: Chris Patten: “A very Chinese city with British characteristics”
1997: Charles Spencer: “The most hunted person of the modern age”
1998: Bill Clinton: “I have sinned”
1998: Tony Blair: Address to Irish Parliament
2001: George W. Bush: Address to the Nation
2004: Osama bin Laden: Address to the United States
2004: Barack Obama: Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention
2007: Steve Jobs: “Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone”
2007: Bill Gates: Commencement Address at Harvard
2008: Barack Obama: “Yes, We Can!”
2013: Malala Yousafzai: “The right of education for every child”
2016: “Emily Doe”: Stanford Rape Trial statement to court
2016: Stephen Hawking: Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence
2017: Ashley Judd: “I am a nasty woman”
2017: Mark Zuckerberg: Commencement Address at Harvard
2017: James Comey: Senate Testimony
2017: Elon Musk: Becoming a Multiplanet Species
2018: Oprah Winfrey: “Their time is up”
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