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I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics–though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

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I have been a socialist all along. I discovered early in life that a lot of the codes of Islam are patterned along socialist lines.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

The word 'tribe' is insulting. It is the European who refers to us as tribes. Such words should be banned. I would rather say I come from Kano State than say I am Fulani....

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

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.

John Adams

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