Flashcards: Speeches

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.

"Ich bin ein Berliner" (German pronunciation: [ˈʔɪç ˈbɪn ʔaɪn bɛɐˈliːnɐ], "I am a Berliner") is a quotation from a June 26, 1963, speech by U.

The Guoyu (Chinese: 國語), usually translated Discourses of the States, is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of speeches attributed to rulers and other men from the Spring and Autumn period (771–476 BC).

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually.

The Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science was established in 1889 by the will of Columbia University president Frederick A.

Poor Charlie's Almanack is a collection of speeches and talks by Charlie Munger, compiled by Peter D.

Greater Talent Network Speakers Bureau (GTN) is an American speakers bureau based in New York.

Enoch Powell's 20 April 1968 address to the General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre (commonly called "Rivers of Blood") was a speech criticising Commonwealth immigration and anti-discrimination legislation that had been proposed in the United Kingdom.

"Read my lips: no new taxes" is a phrase spoken by then American presidential candidate George H.

The Cotton States and International Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by Booker T.

"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" was a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959.

The Pro Aulo Caecina is a speech made by Marcus Tullius Cicero on behalf of his friend Aulus Caecina.

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an essay by David Foster Wallace, first published in book form by Little, Brown and Company in 2009.

The Tragedy of Today's Gays is a 2005 book by gay activist Larry Kramer, in which the author prints a speech he delivered at New York City's Cooper Union Hall on November 21, 2004.

Cheviyorkkuka! Anthimakahalam (Listen! The Last Trumpet) is a book by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer published in 1992.

(Not to be confused with Rigdon's July 4th oration.) The salt sermon was an oration delivered on 17 June 1838 by Sidney Rigdon, then First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and frequent spokesman for Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, against church dissenters, including Book of Mormon witnesses Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and John Whitmer, and other leaders including William Wines Phelps.

"Art, Truth and Politics" (also referred to and published as "Art, Truth & Politics" and Art, Truth and Politics) is the Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to Stockholm to deliver it in person.