The Guardian made a list this April with the greatest speeches of the last century. I copied the list here, but on their website you can read the edited texts and even listen to them.
Winston Churchill We shall fight on the beaches June 4 1940
John F Kennedy Ask not what your country can do for you January 20 1961
Nelson Mandela An ideal for which I am prepared to die April 20 1964
Harold Macmillan The wind of change February 3 1960
Franklin Delano Roosevelt The only thing we have to fear is fear itself March 4 1933
Nikita Khrushchev The cult of the individual February 25 1956
Emmeline Pankhurst Freedom or death November 3 1913
Martin Luther King I have a dream August 28 1963
Charles de Gaulle The flame of French resistance June 1940
Margaret Thatcher The lady’s not for turning October 10 1980
Jawaharlal Nehru A tryst with destiny August 14 1947
Virginia Woolf A room of one’s own 1928
Aneurin Bevan We have to act up to different standards December 5 1956
Earl Spencer The most hunted person of a modern age September 6 1997
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