The speeches she wrote for President Ronald Reagan were widely admired for their effectiveness and contributed to his reputation as "The Great Communicator." This excerpt is taken with permission ...

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Some famous speeches end with stirring conclusions. A celebrated one is Patrick Henry's exhortation to "give me liberty — or give me death." Some speeches need to be very tightly structured ...

But some speeches have been so powerful, moving or important that the feelings stuck with us long after the applause stopped. What makes a great ESPYS speech? To understand this, we went beyond ...

Delivered on the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, the Gettysburg Address is known by some as the greatest speech in the world – and one of Abraham Lincoln's defining moments.

That speech is the only example Americans have of great nobility in our generation, and it is perhaps the greatest speech made by an American politician in that century. Noble speeches ...

From Julius Caesar’s "Friends, Romans, Countrymen…" to Richard III’s "Now is the winter of our discontent…" Shakespeare has written some of the greatest dialogues and monologues in the ...

The series also demonstrates different elements of writing and delivering a persuasive speech, featuring tips from experts including the actor Charles Dance and draws on famous figures and ...