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. “But our country must also receive its fair share, and our people must have confidence that the government will always do the right thing.”

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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” The success of the initiative depends on every Liberian seeing education as the foundation of development and acting to support it”.

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice.

Once the glass ceiling has been broken, it can never be put back together, however one would try to do that.

“People must believe that if they invest, farm, or start a business, they will have the opportunity to succeed.”

"I don't think someone should be expelled because of freedom of speech."

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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