Words and delivery can combine to galvanize an audience, creating ‘I remember where I was when...’ moments. JFK at the Brandenburg Gate or Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial provide unforgettable examples that still stir today. This collection of classic speech excerpts contains not only inspiring orations to democratic freedom and the noblest aspects of human endeavor, but also some of the darkest and most despicable speeches delivered in modern times.

Speeches / Orators:

Speech to the Hitler Youth / Adolf Hitler
Peace for our time / Neville Chamberlain
Blood, tears, toil; Finest hour / Winston Churchill
The invasion of Russia / Molotov
A day that will live in infamy / Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speech to World War I veterans / Charles de Gaulle
Surrender of Japan / Hirohito
Terms of Japanese surrender / Douglas MacArthur
I have faith in the righteousness of our cause / Gandhi
Ask not what your country can do for you; Ich bin ein Berliner / John F. Kennedy
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no whitewash at the White House / Richard Nixon
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall / Ronald Reagan
We are truly sorry / Kevin Rudd
Yes, we can / Barack Obama