“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.

What some have called rejection, I have called a door and that has made all the difference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it’s a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

There’s no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.