What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
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.
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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.
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.
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.
Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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.
Bad men cannot make good citizens.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
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
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.
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...
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
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.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
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