22 April, 2013 | Total views: 118
Carl Sagan “Pale Blue Dot” 13th October 1994 From this distant vantage point, the earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone...
13 April, 2013 | Total views: 124
?6? Margaret Thatcher (September 3,4 1992) The Future of Industrial Democracy ?. On Thatcherism : Its Ideology Practices ANOTHER ‘ISM’? You have asked me to speak about Thatcherism. And that is a great honour. But it has to be said...
08 April, 2013 | Total views: 157
Margaret Thatcher “Britain Awake” Delivered at Kensington Town Hall, Chelsea, London, UK January 19, 1976 The first duty of any Government is to safeguard its people against external aggression. To guarantee the survival of our way of life.The question we...
01 October, 2012
Winston Churchill rehearsed his famous speech "We shall Fight Them on The Beaches" to the full cabinet - prior to going to the House of Commons on June 4th. In the official account of this rehearsal Churchill claimed "we shall go on and we shall fight...
26 September, 2012
The longest ever speech to the UN General Assembly was Cuban President Fidel Castro's debut address in 1960, which clocked in at a cool four and a half hours. During his first visit to the United States in 1959 Castro had seemed friendly, but by...
13 May, 2011
It was this shout from the crowd by soul singer Mahalia Jackson that allegedly prompted Martin Luther King to abandon his notes and extemporize his way into what is often...