“History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.”

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.

There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Leadership does not mean domination.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Place principle above all else.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

If you get into business solely to make money, you won’t. If you try to make a real difference, you’ll find success.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Great differences in technology exist in the world about which even hardcore technologists are unaware.