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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

Haile Selassie

Leadership does not mean domination.
HAILE SELASSIE

Dominate Leadership One Liner
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
HAILE SELASSIE

Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Destroy God Government History Judgement People Remember Strong Weakness
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
HAILE SELASSIE

Leadership Learning Remember
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Country Death Freedom Men Peace War
A good leader maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
HAILE SELASSIE

Emotion Goodness Leadership Thinking
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
HAILE SELASSIE

Act Future History Leaving Past
As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Effort Greatness Simple Start Success
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
HAILE SELASSIE

Alone Man Food Intellectual Soul
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
HAILE SELASSIE

Expression Men Nation
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
HAILE SELASSIE

Creation Ideas Myself People
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
HAILE SELASSIE

Job Material Tools
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
HAILE SELASSIE

Force Institution Issues Nation Peace Reality
Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
HAILE SELASSIE

Achievement Care Children Father Worth
Place principle above all else.
HAILE SELASSIE

Character One Liner Place Principle
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
HAILE SELASSIE

Progress Slow Success

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