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"The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject."
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"We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure."
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"But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement."
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"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs."
Society

"With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history."
History

"There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities."
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"Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people."
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"There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values."
Family

"Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew."
Democracy

"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."
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