Speeches: Finding Speeches

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Text of speeches on wide range of political topics. Monthly from 1934-present.

Presents the text speeches by the most influential leaders from around the world. Monthly from 2009-present.

Contains several databases of speeches including "The Speech Bank" and "Top 100 Speeches".

A non-profit project, sponsored by Sweet Briar College, dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by inspirational, influential and contemporary, women from around the world. This resource contains transcripts only.

Speeches by well-known political figures.

The Scripps Library at the University of Virginia, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the most important presidential speeches in American history. These speeches all have transcripts, and some are available in their entirety in audio or video.

Small non-profit that started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.