Speech on the Pen is Mightier than the Sword – 1

"Hon’ble Principal, Vice Principal, Teachers and My Dear Fellow Students – Good Morning to one and all!

I would like to thank my teacher for giving me the opportunity to stand in front of you all and deliver a speech today. My speech’s topic is The Pen is Mightier than the Sword. Needless to say, it’s a very popular phrase. We all know that sword is a very powerful weapon and can give enormous power to the person holding it. It is so powerful that with this you can even make people bow down to you and establish your supremacy.

However, you can enslave a person physically, but cannot enslave his mind and heart for that matter. This power lies with the pen. Pen even though small in size is known to be more powerful than the sword. Through sword, you enslave people against their will and this cannot last for long as one day your supremacy will meet its doom by the forces of vengeance.

Does history not give us enough proof to make us realize that the military glory of Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte and Hitler, to name a few was short lived and easily passed into oblivion. On the contrary, the teachings and sayings of the great writers as well as philosophers are remembered by the people till eternity. It doesn’t die down and has a lasting impact. In fact, philosophers, writers, poets and scientists never die, but live in our hearts forever through their exemplary works.

Long-lasting empires cannot be built through swords, but through the power of pen. The powerful ideas of many great philosophers and intellectuals have been known to smash dictatorship and monarchy in various parts of the world. It is the writers’ pen that has encouraged our youth to strike back against injustice and give a tough fight to the corrupt authority.

Powerful thoughts that flowed down from the writer’s pen helped man to emerge from the barbaric phase. The ability of a man is to pin down his thoughts on a piece of paper. What makes human beings superior in comparison with animals? It is not their physical prowess, but their mental faculty and the way they think differently. Therefore, it’s not the sword, but the pen, from which powerful thoughts flow down and makes man superior than the other being on this earth.

Thus, in the end all I would want to say that violence never ever helps and the less violence is encouraged, the better our place will become on this earth. So the pen is indeed mightier than the sword because what can be achieved through language and thoughts cannot be achieved through violence and power of persuasion is much more effective than the unleashing of violence. Besides, peace is what carries a sublime power and breaks all the false illusion associated with violence and reign of terror.

So adopt the path of non-violence and influence the world with your written words.

Thank You!
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