Ask HN: What are your favorite speeches?

[benrudolph]

I'm building a site that collects all the world's best speeches. I believe that the repositories that exist for speeches are often cluttered with ads and/or unappealing layouts. Speeches are works of art and they deserve to be displayed in pleasing manner. My prototype is here: http://beautifulspee.ch/

[MalcolmDiggs]

This is one of my favorite books: http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Great-Speeches-Fourth-Enlarged-...

Has roughly ~300 speeches in it and they're fairly well picked.

[benrudolph]

Thanks Malcolm. This looks great. I'll check it out.

[gabeamarcus]

Dananjaya Hettiarachchi just won the 2014 World Championship of Public Speaking. Check it out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk8xNZQ3ZwE