Rankningar av de bästa talen. John F. Kennedys ”ask not what…” och Martin Luther Kings ”I Have a Dream” är två av de mest kända och hyllade talen i historien.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1841228,00.html
| Talare | Talets titel | År |
| Sokrates | Apology | 400 f.Kr. |
| Patrick Henry | Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death | 1775 |
| Frederick Douglass | The Hypocrisy of American Slavery | 1852 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Gettysburg Address | 1863 |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's Rights to the Suffrage | 1783 |
| Winston Churchill | Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat | 1940 |
| John F. Kennedy | Inaugural Address (ask not what your country can do for you…) | 1961 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | I Have a Dream | 1963 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | The American Promise | 1965 |
| Ronald Reagan | Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate (Tear down this wall!) | 1987 |
http://www.retoriksallskapet.se/Kandatal.htm
| Talare | Talets titel | År |
| Selma Lagerlöf | Tacktal vid Nobelprisutdelningen | 1909 |
| Earl Spencer | Talet vid prinsessan Dianas begravning | 1997 |
| Tony Blair | War with Iraq | 2003 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | I Have A Dream | 1963 |
| Ronald Reagan | Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate (Tear down this wall!) | 1987 |
| John F. Kennedy | Inaugural Address (ask not what your country can do for you…) | 1961 |
| John F. Kennedy | We choose to go to the moon | 1962 |
| Winston Churchill | Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat | 1940 |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Gettysburg Address | 1963 |
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
| Talare | Talets titel | År |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | I Have A Dream | 1963 |
| John F. Kennedy | Inaugural Address (ask not what your country can do for you…) | 1961 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Inaugural Address | 1933 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation | 1941 |
| Barbara Jordan | Democratic National Convention Keynote Address | 1976 |
| Richard Nixon | Checkers | 1952 |
| Malcolm X | The Ballot or the Bullet | 1964 |
| Ronald Reagan | The Space Shuttle “Challenger” Tragedy Address | 1986 |
| John F. Kennedy | Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association | 1960 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | We Shall Overcome | 1965 |
http://www.retorik.se/talarexempel.html
| Talare | Talets titel | År |
| Winston Churchill | Första radiotalet | 1940 |
| John F. Kennedy | Inaugural Address (ask not what your country can do for you…) | 1961 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | I Have A Dream | 1963 |
| Olof Palme | Hanoi | 1972 |
| Ronald Reagan | Inaugural Address | 1981 |
| Mona Sahlin | Kontokortsaffären | 1995 |
| Earl Spencer | The Tribute | 1997 |
| Bill Clinton | Lewinskytalet | 1998 |
| Tony Blair | Talet till Labourkongressen | 2001 |
| Carl XVI Gustaf | Tsunamitalet | 2005 |