Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. 

Speech is a form of communication in spoken language, made by a 

speaker before an audience for a given purpose.

Speech is: manner of speaking, as of a person.

 

Speech Sentence Examples:

 

• I guess the speech went pretty well.

• You made that silly speech the other night and I'm still not buying.

• Seeing a speech therapist would have helped, but he managed to do it on his own.

• His absence of speech doesn't slow him down.

 

 

     Chief

    Joseph

 

 

October 5, 1877; Montana Territory

 

“Surrender Speech”

 

Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting.

Our Chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Ta Hool Hool Shute is dead.

The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no.

He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death.

My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food.

No one knows where they are – perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find.

Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

 

 

 

Alexander

the Great

 

 

326 B.C.; Hydaspes River, India

 

Speech of Alexander the Great

I could not have blamed you for being the first to lose heart if I, your commander, had not shared in your exhausting marches and your perilous campaigns; it would have been natural enough if you had done all the work merely for others to reap the reward. But it is not so. You and I, gentlemen, have shared the labour and shared the danger, and the rewards are for us all. The conquered territory belongs to you; from your ranks the governors of it are chosen; already the greater part of its treasure passes into your hands, and when all Asia is overrun, then indeed I will go further than the mere satisfaction of our ambitions: the utmost hopes of riches or power which each one of you cherishes will be far surpassed, and whoever wishes to return home will be allowed to go, either with me or without me. I will make those who stay the envy of those who return.

 

Mahatma

Gandhi

 

 

August 8, 1942; India

 

“Quit India”

I believe that in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic struggle for freedom than ours. I read Carlyle’s French Resolution while I was in prison, and Pandit Jawaharlal has told me something about the Russian revolution. But it is my conviction that inasmuch as these struggles were fought with the weapon of violence they failed to realize the democratic ideal. In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today. Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common struggle for independence.