Speech Collection

The Sleeping Congregation, William Hogarth
Vintage engraving of The Sleeping Congregation, William Hogarth. Interior of a church where the congregation sleeps as the clergyman reads from the gospel

Hello Speech Bubble Quotation
Hello on white quote bubble with quote symbols

Lorenzo the Magnificent

Don Quixote - Adventure with the knight of the wood
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore from the story The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. The adventure with the knight of the wood continued, with the wise

Don Quixote telling a man about his adventures
Vintage engraving of a scene from Don Quixote, telling a man about his adventures. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

Saint Paul preaching to the Thessalonians
Vintage engraving from the 1870 of a scene from the New Testament by Gustave Dore showing Saint Paul preaching to the Thessalonians

Regency period gentleman making a speech
A Regency period gentleman up on his hind legs making a speech during a meal. From the prominence of the tankard, glass and decanter, it would appear that he is in high spirits

Sign Language Chart
Illustrated chart from the magazine The Fireside Monthly shows The deaf mute alphabet, with one hand now known as sign language or visible speech, late 19th Century

Regency period man making a speech
A man wearing Regency style clothing and sporting a quiff making a speech after a harvest supper. He appears to have enjoyed plenty of alcoholic beverage while he waits

Demosthenes (384 BC-322 BC)
Illustration of a Demosthenes (384 BC-322 BC)

Under The Oaks
Illustration of the birth of the Republican Party Under the Oaks at Jackson, Michigan on July 06, 1854. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Origami megaphone
Megaphone made in origami

Unionist Rally
27th July 1912: Crowds cheering during the Great Unionist Rally at Blenheim Palace. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hats Off
27th July 1912: Loyalists cheer on hearing the result of the Crewe election during the Great Unionist Rally at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Human speech organs, wood engraving, published in 1880
The Organs of Speech: A) mouth, B) uvula, C) tongue, D) tonsils, E) epiglottis, F) thyroid cartilage, G) arytenoid muscle, H+I) vestibular folds, K) vocal fold, L) larynx, M) hypopharynx, N) trachea

FDR Re-Elected
8th November 1940: American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) speaking to a crowd of 25, 000 at Madison Square Gardens, New York, before his sweeping re-election for a third term

Life of Charles Dickens
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Life of Charles Dickens. If he weakly showed the least disposition to hear it, Captain Porter, in a loud sonorous voice, gave him every word of it. Dalziels

Digital illustration of businessman giving speech from lectern

Open Day
circa 1909: Speech Day at Harrow Public School in Greater London. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Phillips/Getty Images)

Brandenburg Gate
1918: Crowds in front of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

War Aims Meeting
August 1917: Welsh Liberal politician and Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, presiding over a war aims meeting at Queens Hall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Victory Rally
June 1919: The Peace and Joy Victory Loan is launched in Trafalgar Square, London. (Photo by Roper/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Peace Rally
1st July 1919: Crowds at St. James Palace listening to the peace proclamation. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Celebrating Peace
19th July 1919: Londoners celebrate the end of World War I at the London Peace Pageant in Hyde Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Victory Loan
1st June 1919: The Peace and Joy Victory Loan is launched in Trafalgar Square, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Great Ulster Rally
4th April 1914: Crowds cheering and waving flags at the Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Anti-Home Rule
September 1912: An Ulster Anti-Home Rule demonstration at Coleraine, County Derry. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Speakers Corner
January 1912: Orators in Hyde Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Church Demo
21st June 1913: A section of the enormous crowd demonstrating in Hyde Park against the Welsh Church Disestablishment. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Church Demo
21st June 1913: A section of the enormous crowd at a demonstration in Hyde Park, London, against the Welsh Church Disestablishment. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Land Campaign
11th October 1913: 3, 000 people listen to Lloyd George as he opens his Land Campaign in Bedford. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Election Results
21st August 1913: The returning officer declares the result to a waiting crowd during the Chesterfield Bye- Election. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Poll Results
19th February 1914: Crowds gather for the declaring of the Poll at the Old Guildhall, during the South Bucks Bye- Election at High Wycombe. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Labourers Arcade
August 1906: An Independent Labour Party meeting in Yarmouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Peace Conference
July 1921: Cheering Unionists at the Irish Peace Conference in Dublin. (Photo by Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

All-Out
1919: Police strike meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Union Meeting
September 1913: Crowds in Dublins O Connell street attending a trades union meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Public Rally
February 1922: Irish nationalist leader Eamon de Valera (1882 - 1975) addressing a crowd at a public rally at O Connell Street in Dublin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Peace Conference
July 1921: Sinn Feiners cheer the arrival of Irish republican leader Eamon de Valera and the founder of Sinn Fein Arthur Griffith at the Irish Peace Conference in Dublin

London Loan Rally
15th February 1917: A Victory War Loan rally in Trafalgar Square. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Trade Unionist
A trade unionist speaking to a crowd in a caricature critical of the early labour movement in Britain, 1834. The caption reads: Yes, gentlemen, these is my principles, no K--g, no L--ds, no parsons

Dock Strike
A labour leader addresses dockers during the London dock strike of 1889. Painting by Dudley Hardy (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

League of Self-Supporting Women Rally, 21st May 1910
21st May 1910: Men and women attend a rally of the League of Self-Supporting Women, part of the Womens Suffrage Movement in Union Square, New York

Music For All; mixed sex band playing at a rally of the League of Self-Supporting Women
21st May 1910: A mixed sex band playing at a rally of the League of Self-Supporting Women, part of the Womens Suffrage Movement in Union Square, New York

Coolidge In Kansas
circa 1925: American President Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) with his wife Grace in Kansas City for an Armistice Day speech. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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