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1599: St Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare as part of his history play Henry V has been famously portrayed by Laurence Olivier to raise British spirits during the Second World War, and by Kenneth Branagh in the 1989 film Henry V, and it made famous the phrase "band of brothers".
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
‘Be sincere, be brief, be seated.’ Advice from Franklin D Roosevelt to his son on public speaking
The Four Minute Men were a group of volunteers authorized by United States President Woodrow Wilson to give four-minute speeches on topics given to them by the Committee on Public Information (CPI). In 1917–1918, over 750,000 speeches were given in 5,200 communities by over 75,000 accomplished orators, reaching about 400 million listeners. [ 1 ]
Convention speeches can launch newcomers into the national spotlight and provide space for political pioneers to break barriers. As the 2020 Democratic and Republican National Conventions are ...
Typically in high school speech competitions, a competitor is given 30 seconds to select a topic from a set of topics (usually three). The competitor will then have 5 minutes to compose a speech of five minutes with a 30-second grace period. There is a general outline for impromptu speeches, it is as follows: Introduction/roadmap (1 minute)
This recording is a forty-minute speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which he delivered as the keynote speaker of "Religious Witness for Human Dignity, " a multi-faith event held at the Los Angeles Coliseum on May 31, 1964 [16] June 3 "Religious Witness for Human Dignity" Goodwin Stadium, Arizona State University and Tanner Chapel AME Church
The speech is ranked as one of the ten best American political speeches of the 20th century. [16] Reagan believed that Western Democracy offered the best hope to open the Berlin Wall. [17] On June 12, 1987, he gave a speech at the Wall in which he challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"