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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

Haile Selassie

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
HAILE SELASSIE

Believe Goal Ourselves
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
HAILE SELASSIE

Mental Oneself Reward
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
HAILE SELASSIE

Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
HAILE SELASSIE

Deal Death Enemy Men Stop War
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
HAILE SELASSIE

Demand Effort See Unity
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
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
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Courage Greatness Human Nation Race Spirit
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
HAILE SELASSIE

Job Material Tools
Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
HAILE SELASSIE

Feeling Life Man Play Problem Role Walk
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.
HAILE SELASSIE

Alone Himself Knowledge Learning Worth
No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
HAILE SELASSIE

Faith God Human Judgement Oneself Way
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.
HAILE SELASSIE

Foundation Home Rain Strong
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
There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare
HAILE SELASSIE

Attention Body Men People Sound Spiritual

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

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