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

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.