Nobel Prize

Arthur Henderson’s Acceptance Speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1934. Your Royal Highness, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. President, Members of the Nobel Peace Committee, and Ladies and Gentlemen: I am deeply touched by the kind words which you, Mr. Prime Minister, have used today in…

Frank B. Kellogg’s Acceptance Speech* on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1930. I desire most to express my deep appreciation of the great honor you have conferred upon me; an honor I value more than any I have ever received, not only on account of the…

Acceptance by Herbert H.D. Peirce, American Envoy. Since President Roosevelt was not present at the award ceremony on December 10, 1906, Mr. Herbert H.D. Peirce, American envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Norway, accepted the prize on his behalf. Mr. Peirce’s speech, which included the reading of a telegram from the President, follows: I deeply…

Acceptance by Aristide Briand. Mr. Briand, the French foreign minister, who shared with Gustav Stresemann the Peace Prize for 1926 – awarded because of their contributions to the Locarno Pacts the year before – was not present at the presentation ceremony in Oslo on December 10, 1926. The French chargé d’affaires, J. Billebault du Chaffault,…

Acceptance by Albert G. Schmedeman, American Minister. The Peace Prize for 1919, reserved in that year, was awarded in 1920 to Woodrow Wilson in recognition of his Fourteen Points peace program and his work in achieving inclusion of the Covenant of the League of Nations in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Since President Wilson was…

Radio Address by Nicholas Murray Butler, delivered on December 12, 1931, after the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on December 10, 1931. Dr. Butler was unable to attend the in Oslo on December 10, 1931, and because of official duties could not deliver a Nobel lecture in Oslo later. He did, however,…

Mother Teresa’s Acceptance speech, held on 10 December 1979 in the Aula of the University of Oslo, Norway. Let us all together thank God for this beautiful occasion where we can all together proclaim the joy of spreading peace, the joy of loving one another and the joy acknowledging that the poorest…

As the Laureate was unable to be present on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1975, the acceptance was read by Elena Bonner Sakharova (Translation) Mr. President, honourable members of the , Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here today because, due to certain strange characteristics of the…

Lester Bowles Pearson’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1957 May I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your very kind and generous words. I am sorry that I am not sufficiently educated to have understood them in Norwegian but I was able to detect…

Albert Lutuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1961 Your Majesty, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, here present! On an occasion like this words fail one. This is the most important occasion not only in my life, but in that of my dear wife,…