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Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!
Oct 1, 2025
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.
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!
One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!
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.
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.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
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.
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
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.
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.
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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.
Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
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
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.
Bad men cannot make good citizens.
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.