"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country...........Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy

Good stuff... @gk and @Njunge, wholeheartedly accept the correction and apologies to JM's memory; same goes for @kizee Julius Ceaser spoke Latin.


"I cannot and I will not recant anything"
Apr 1521, Martin Luther; at the Diet of Worms, when commanded to respond to his charge of heresy and recant of his teachings.

"I have a dream"
Aug 1963, Martin Luther King Jr; delivered to over 200,000 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.


"It Wasn't Me"
Nov 2000, Shaggy, reggae artist, number one hit song advising a friend on what to do when caught with another woman

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
Jan 2008, Bill Clinton, President of the USA; standing next to his wife at a White House press conference


"mapambano, mapambano, bado mapambano"
Oct 2007, Otieno Kajwang; urging on the Orange rebellion

Wewe ni buure tu!

"It is not my wish to speak to you in this colonialistic language" - Jomo Kenyatta december 12th 1963 addressing wananchi


"It's enough!! Moi must go" - Kenneth Matiba, July 1990....(man, i miss matiba. That was a brave man right there!)

"wewe ni pumbavu...mavi ya kuku tu!" Mwai Kibaki said these words, and its on youtube incase anyone who wants to verify

'nimetoa amri hawa vinyangarika waswageswage kama unga' Jomo Kenyatta to Oginga in Kisumu 1969

"Dawa ya katiba ni matiba"
A slogan used in 1992 by Matiba.

"Moi atatawala miaka ingine tano,na ikiwezekana ingine kumi na hata ikiwezekana ingine mia mpende msipende."
By the late Shariff Nasiri former mp for Mvita.

"Sina siri nina jibu." Used by Najibu Balala in 2002 against Nasiri {read it "si Nasiri ni Najibu"} How creative?

@Amurabi, good one... si Nasiri ni Najibu...

LOL @ "Makosa imefanyika"

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Any Science fiction buffs here? On Star Trek, there was this one quote that always got me:

Resistance is Futile - The Borg

another one was:

Your logic is flawed - Seven of Nine

In the battle of Thermopylae made popular by the movie 300.

The text in Herodotus was:

εἰ ἀποκρυπτόντων τῶν Μήδων τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ σκιῇ ἔσοιτο πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἡ μάχη καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἡλίῳ.

It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade'"

'It is done...' The Christ, Circa 33 A.D

@Njunge.
They keep playing this clip on NTV on that documentary 'making of a Nation'. On that day, its when the Rungu met the meat in Kisumu. and lives were lost,Kenyatta never again stepped in Kisumu,Kikuyu luo relations have never been the same again