"Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries."

"Seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added unto you."

"The forces of reaction are always at work."

"We, in Africa, will evolve forms of government, rather different from the traditional Western pattern, but no less democratic in their protection of the individual and his inalienable rights."