Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
This is the concluding part of the full Text of Sen. Barack Obama’s Speech while accepting Nomination as Presidential Candidate at the Democratic National Convention, Denver, 2008. Today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after [...]
Winston Churchill’s Moving 2nd World War Speech Before The British House of Commons, June 18, 1940 Here is where we come to the Navy-and after all, we have a Navy. Some people seem to forget that we have a Navy. We must remind them. For the last thirty years I have been concerned in discussions [...]
As you mature however, you begin to use your perspective powers to examine deep issues. For instance you start to realize that the cutest girl in the neighbourhood may not be trust worthy or that the most popular boy in class may not be morally upright. If you’ve past the bloom of youth that is [...]
Hello Children, Once upon a time all the animals in the bush gathered and decided to build a house where they would all live. During their meeting to implement their decision reached they all came to a conclusion to build a house immediately so that their properties would be intact as the rainy season was [...]
Being a speech by Pope John Pual II at the historic Yad Vashem Israel’s Main Holocaust Memorial. In March of 2000, Pope John Paul II conducted an historic week-long pilgrimage to the Holy Land, visiting several sites in Israel for the first time including the location in Bethlehem believed to be the birth place of [...]
On August 8, 1974, a unique and tragic event in American politics occurred as President Richard M. Nixon spoke on TV to the American public announcing his decision to resign the presidency. Nixon’s decision came after the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives voted to recommend his impeachment. The collapse of support in the [...]
Until about mid-1776, when, tired of the heavy-handed colonial ‘over-rule’ of Great Britain, the original 13 states of America, elected to declare independence, what is today the United States of America (USA), the world’s most influential nation was also a British colony, like Nigeria. In fact as late as January 1776, barely five months before [...]
George Graham Vest (1830-1904) served as U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1879 to 1903 and became one of the leading orators and debaters of his time. This delightful speech is from an earlier period in his life when he practised law in a small Missouri town. It was given in court while representing a man [...]
The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains. And [...]
In January 1918, ten months before the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and made this address suggesting possible peace terms to end the four-year-old conflict in which soldiers from England, France, Germany, Russia and many other nations had died by the millions. The United States [...]
