Felix Houphouet-Boigny Quotes

• Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.

  Felix Houphouet-Boigny

  Country, Song, Mistake

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• On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world.

  Felix Houphouet-Boigny

  Country, America, Needs

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