Nigeria Independence Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Weather, Roots, Firsts

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.68, Penguin

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• The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

  Enoch Powell

  Men, Imagination, Nations

  John Enoch Powell, John Wood (1970). “Freedom and reality”, Arlington House Publishers

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• 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.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Blessing

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• You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

  Norman Douglas

  Business, Advertising, Idealism

  SouthWind ch. 7 (1917)

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• 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

  Carl Sagan

  Rights, Oath Of Office, Wish

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Vision, Looks

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

  Criss Jami

  People, Sometimes, Silent

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• 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.

  Abraham Flexner

  Education, Peace, Money

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Lucretia Mott

  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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• Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Destiny, Tyrants, Coward

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Oxygen, Hymns

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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• It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

  Victor Hugo

  Growth, Victory, Nations

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.32

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

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Want, Study

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• Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

  Lou Engle

  Children, Raises, Raised

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

  Dale Carnegie

  War, Patriotism, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.20, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Courage, Patriotic

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• Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Government, Show Me

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• Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

  Chinua Achebe

  Stories, Complicated, Nigeria

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• 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

  Ben Okri

  Art, Poison, Stories

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

  Patrick Henry

  Rights, Tyrants, People

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• 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...

  George Washington

  Order, Heaven, Addresses

  George Washington's Inaugural Address, www.archives.gov. April 30, 1789.

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• 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.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Rights, World

  "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.

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• 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Surrender, Individual

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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