Quotes on Nigeria Independence

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

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

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.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

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

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...

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.

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.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

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.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

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

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

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