An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.