While Winston Churchill's addresses to the nation during the war usually garner greater attention, George's on Britain's entry into the war was also galvanising.
Mr Noda's move could also transform the prospects of the TPP, most obviously by uniting two of the world's leading three economies but also by galvanising others.
I don't join up because my contribution to the war effort is to write and speak to people all over the world to raise awareness about this war and galvanise support for Ukraine.
But our diaries are a forum in which we can raise and then galvanise ourselves into answering the large questions which lie behind the stewardship of our lives: What do I really want?
The discipline of writing a long letter has the effect of galvanising our hitherto confused and disparate emotions and forces our intelligence to lay out our story in a systematic and emotionally logical way.
This was the first of three speeches he would make in the summer of 1940 which are generally credited with having galvanised the nation's resolve to fight on against the Nazis.