“Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.”

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.

The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.