General Sayings

Religions have been basis of the tyranny of kings and sultans.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

We are concerned here with either real traitors or complete imbeciles. But imbecility, raised to this level, is equal to treason.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths.

You will kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

I do not tire of seeing you everyday at all our meetings. Do I?

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off.

It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified.

If by their fruits we shall know them, they must first grow the fruits.

Frankly I find this anxiety about the health of Tanzania sometimes funny, sometimes irritating, and always odd.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.