persuasive speeches
Persuasive Speeches
Persuasive essays and speeches can be interesting only if you choose an exciting topic. Presented below is a list of topics for high school and college students.
- Screen violence leads to behavioral disorders
- The death penalty
- Banning paparazzi
- Is vegetarianism healthy?
- Community service
- Gun control
- Use of steroids
- Is the world really free of apartheid?
- Fad diets do more bad than good
- Gay marriages
- Controversial death of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Use of Internet should be censored for kids
- The Da Vinci Code: fact or fiction
- Greatest writer/ scientist of all time
- Does meditation actually work?
- Is Internet dating safe?
- Do ghosts exist?
- Exams should not be mandatory.
- Is organ donation ethical?
- Was life in the previous century better?
- Will life in the next century be better?
- Is lying justified?
- Religious practices in public be banned.
- Is living together a prerequisite of marriage?
- Do extraterrestrials (ET) exist?
- The current tax system is fair/ unfair.
- Banning junk food at school
Life was Better in the Previous Century | Life was NOT Better in the Previous Century |
No pollution | Manual work |
Simple living | Technology not advanced |
Less stress | Fewer comforts in life |
Healthy living | Slower progress |
Bound by traditions | Fewer individual rights |
Slow-paced life | Unaffordable luxury |
- Alexander Stephens - Secession is the Height of Madness
- Anthony Eden - The Suez Crisis
- Aung San Suu Kyi - Freedom from Fear
- Barack Obama - Against Going to War with Iraq
- Booker T. Washington - Atlanta Compromise
- Cardinal Clemens Von Galen - Against Nazi Euthanasia
- David Lloyd George - WWII
- Dwight D Eisenhower - The Chance for Peace
- Eleanor Roosevelt - What Libraries Mean to the Nation
- Edmund Burke - He is a Member of Parliament
- Enoch Powell - Rivers Of Blood
- Hillary Clinton - Women's Rights are Human Rights
- Neville Chamberlain - Radio Address (September 3rd 1939)
- John Stuart Mill - In Favor of Capital Punishment
- John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address
- John Wilkes - The Conquest of the Americans
- King Edward VIII - Abdication Speech
- Queen Elizabeth I - Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
- Stanley Baldwin - Disarmament
- William Pitt - The Defense of Weaker States
- William Wilberforce - Horrors of the Slave Trade
- William Lyon Phelps - The Pleasure Of Books
- William Wyndham - Attack on Sir Robert Walpole
- William Shakespeare - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears