The 12 most influential speeches of all time

Speech to the troops at Tilbury / by Elizabeth I

Give me liberty or give me death / by Patrick Henry

Ain't I a woman? / by Sojourner Truth

What to the slave is the Fourth of July / by Frederick Douglass

The Gettysburg Address / by Abraham Lincoln

Women's rights to the suffrage / by Susan B. Anthony

Surrender speech / by Chief Joseph

Do or die / by Mahatma Gandhi

Inauguration Address / by John F. Kennedy

We shall overcome / by Lyndon B. Johnson

Stanford commencement address / by Steve Jobs

Worldwide access to education / by Malala Yousafzai

Other notable influential speeches

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