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 SELASSIEIt is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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Place principle above all else.
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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.
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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.
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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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.
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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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.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.
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