"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."

"Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind."

"It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else."

"The strength of a nation is not in its military might but in the unity of its people."

"The African continent must unite or disintegrate."