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  • Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

    Education   Peace   Money  
    Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers
  • To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

    Art   Poison   Stories  
  • I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

    Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.20, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

  • What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies

    Impact   People   Legacy  
  • A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

  • Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.

  • Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

  • Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

  • Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

  • Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

    Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
  • True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  • Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

    "Playing the power game", www.espn.com. July 4, 2008.
  • Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

    Wall   Rights   World  
    "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.
  • Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  • We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

    Country   People   Want  
    Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.
  • The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

    Family   Strength   Peace  
  • No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

    "See It Now" (CBS), March 7, 1954.
  • No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.114, Modern Library
  • One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.278, Random House
  • There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

    "Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author, Comes Out As Gay To Challenge Homophobic Laws", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.
  • Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

    Military   Oxygen   Hymns  
    Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985
  • Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.

    "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.
  • I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  • If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

  • Bad men cannot make good citizens.

    Men   Tyrants   Citizens  
  • If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

    Political   Want   Study  
  • It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

    Rights   Tyrants   People  
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