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.
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies
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.
One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
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.
Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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.
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.
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.
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...
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!
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.
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
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.
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.
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