GREAT SPEECHES OF 20th CENTURY
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Introduction
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Great speeches
Assemble a collection of the great speeches of the 20th century with the Guardian. Each day for two weeks you can collect a free booklet containing a historic address and coverage of the speech from the time. The speeches are introduced by prominent figures ranging from FW de Klerk on Nelson Mandela's statement to the Rivonia trial to Mikhail Gorbachev on Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin. If you've missed out on any of the booklets, click here to buy copies from our Readers Offers department -
No 1: Winston Churchill
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This is the edited text of the speech delivered to House of Commons on June 4 1940.
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No 2: John F Kennedy
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This speech was delivered by Kennedy at his presidential inauguration on January 20 1961.
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No 3: Nelson Mandela
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This is the full text of Mandela's statement from the dock at the opening of his trial on charges of sabotage, supreme court of South Africa, Pretoria, April 20 1964.
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No 4: Harold Macmillan
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Douglas Hurd: In South Africa, Macmillan delivered one of the defining statements of British policy in the 20th century.
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No 5: Franklin D Roosevelt
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This speech was delivered by Roosevelt at his inauguration in Washington on March 4 1933.
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No 6: Nikita Khrushchev
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This is an edited version of a speech delivered by Khrushchev to the 20th congress of the Communist party of the USSR in Moscow on February 25 1956.
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No 7: Emmeline Pankhurst
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This is an edited version of a speech delivered by Pankhurst in Hartford, Connecticut on November 13 1913.
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No 8: Martin Luther King
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This speech was delivered by King on August 28 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington.
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No 9: Charles de Gaulle
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These speeches were delivered by Charles de Gaulle and broadcast by the BBC in 1940.
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No 10: Margaret Thatcher
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This speech was delivered to the Conservative party conference in Brighton on October 10 1980.
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No 11: Jawaharlal Nehru
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This speech was delivered by Nehru to the Constituent Assembly of India in New Delhi on August 14 1947.
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No 12: Virginia Woolf
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Versions of this speech were delivered by Woolf at Girton and Newnham colleges, University of Cambridge, on October 20 & 26 1928.
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No 13: Aneurin Bevan
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This is an edited version of a speech delivered by Bevan to the House of Commons on December 5 1956.
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No 14: Earl Spencer
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This speech was delivered at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Westminster Abbey on September 6 1997.
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More on the series
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Series editor Tom Clark considers what makes fine words great.
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Earl Spencer, one of only three living figures selected for inclusion, describes for the first time how he wrote his momentous address.
Most recent
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Audio (42 sec), 1 Nov 2010: Ted Sorensen, one of President John F Kennedy's key advisers, discusses the art of writing speeches
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3 May 2007: This is part of the full text of a speech delivered to the House of Commons on December 5 1956.
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3 May 2007: This is part of the full text of a speech Aneurin Bevan delivered to the House of Commons on December 5 1956.
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27 Apr 2007: This is part of the full text of a speech delivered by Emmeline Pankhurst in Hartford, Connecticut on November 13 1913
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27 Apr 2007: This is part of the full text of a speech delivered by Emmeline Pankhurst in Hartford, Connecticut on November 13 1913.
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27 Apr 2007: This is part of the full text of a speech delivered by Emmeline Pankhurst in Hartford, Connecticut on November 13 1913.
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26 Apr 2007: Full text of a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th congress of the Communist party of the USSR in Moscow on February 25 1956.
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26 Apr 2007: This is the full text of a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th congress of the Communist party of the USSR in Moscow on February 25 1956.
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26 Apr 2007: This is the full text of a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th congress of the Communist party of the USSR in Moscow on February 25 1956.
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26 Apr 2007: This is the full text of a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th congress of the Communist party of the USSR in Moscow on February 25 1956.
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26 Apr 2007: This is the full text of a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th congress of the Communist party of the USSR in Moscow on February 25 1956.
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20 Apr 2007: This is the full text of the speech delivered to House of Commons on June 4 1940.
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13 Jun 1964: June 13 1964: Nelson Mandela smiled and gave the thumbs-up sign as he was driven away to life imprisonment today, but was unable to catch a final glimpse of his wife and four-year-old daughter standing forlornly on the corner of the street.
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21 Apr 1964: April 21 1964: Two African leaders, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, told the court trying them here today that their aim was emancipation from white domination, and they had come to regard violence as inevitable.
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29 Aug 1963: August 29 1963: The Washington march for jobs and freedom - the largest demonstration of its kind the capital has ever seen - has been an outstanding success. The target of 100,000 marchers was in fact doubled.
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