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86 Military officer Quotes

We do not play politics. We are not masochists; rather, we are people who choose to hunger a little to remain alive instead of feeding fat to become respectable corpses.

Play politics People Choose Feeding
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I still believe that the one thing that will bring peace, absolute peace, to this country, the type of peace we want attached to development, is to liberate Ndi Igbo and there is no better act of liberation than accepting that they have equal right in Nigeria.

Peace Nigeria Development Liberate
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The history of the world is a chronicle of oppression.
History Chronicle World Oppression
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It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
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We are humans. We live. We fight, fight because the decision to be free is a decision taken freely and collectively, because to become involved in violent struggle for freedom is the only honor left to an oppressed people threatened with genocide, because in the final analysis the only true bulwark against death is to live.

Humans Decision Freely Genocide
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What I have become, in this struggle is the mouthpiece of my people. I go where they push and no more.

People Mouthpiece Struggle Push
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If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership.

Leader Society Dead Cowardice
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We make no apologies for the social phenomenon known as the Biafran revolution; rather, we proclaim with pride the inevitability of our struggle, the indestructibility of our people, and the assured finality of our success.

Biafran Apologise Revolution Phenomenon
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Biafra is a child of circumstance. His existence and survival are always a marvel, sometimes bordering on a miracle. His life is a tribute to man, his courage is his endurance, his ingenuity is his humanity.

Biafra Circumstance Existence Survival
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One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death.

Leaders Frightens Death Excesses
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Since oppression is maintained by force, it is only possible to remove that oppression by a counter force.

Oppression Force Remove Possible
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From the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death.

Moment Leadership Sacrificed Death
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The Igbos, when they are returned to the fold, must be given their rightful place and as a people who have been misguided and misled by their leaders, the rest of us have a duty to bind their wounds and give them our right hand of fellowship.

The Igbos The fold Leaders Misled
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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

Trouble Military Ambition General
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The Worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United State.
The worth Child Born and bred Nigeria
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In spite of Ojukwu’s wicked propaganda, religion has never been a cause of conflict in Nigeria and it is my fervent hope that all Catholics, Muslems, and Protestants will continue to work and live together in harmony.

Ojukwu Wicked propaganda Religion Hope
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One of the challenges of the future is the extent to which our Universities can meet the needs and aspirations of the society which they are established to serve, without in any way compromising the autonomy that is so essential for a healthy academic atmosphere.

The future Universities Aspirations Autonomy
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We fought the war with great caution, not in anger or hatred, but always in the hope that common sense would prevail. Many times we sought a negotiated settlement, not out of weakness, but in order to minimize the problems of reintegration, reconciliation, and reconstruction.

War Anger Great caution Common sense
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The world knows how hard we strove to avoid the civil war. Our objectives in fighting the war to crush Ojukwu’s rebellion were always clear. We desired to preserve the territorial integrity and unity of Nigeria.

The world Hard Ojukwu Rebellion
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It is my hope that our students will continue to be restrained and sober, concentrating more on what they can contribute to the development of their country. They have a rare opportunity which they should utilize to the fullest.

My hope Students Sober Development
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Like good soldiers we are not promising anything miraculous or spectacular. But what we do promise every law-abiding citizen is freedom from fear and all forms of oppression

Good Soldiers Miraculous Spectacular
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Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent

Our enemies Profiteers The swindlers Low places
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Our determination is that until the two decrees I have signed today are abrogated, every individual should be preoccupied with the task of national reconstruction, not as ex-politician, but simply as a Nigerian with faith in his country’s destiny.

Determination Decrees Destiny Abrogated
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It is common knowledge that civil servants are expected to tender advice to Ministers but it was not obligatory on the part of Ministers to accept advise so tendered. It will therefore be wrong to blame civil servants for mistakes made by their Ministers who in many cases did not accept the advice given to them by these officers.

Common Knowledge Civil servant Minister
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Nigerians must understand and respect one another in the new national spirit. Those ex-politicians in different camps who previously regarded one another as enemies should now forget the past and work together for the common good

Nigerian National spirit Respect Common good
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Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It now becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria

Nigeria Federation Republic of Nigeria
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As a corrective regime we must ensure that the fatal maladies of the past are cured before we relinquish power.

Corrective Regime Fatal Maladies
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The National Military Government owes it as a duty to the people of this country to remove the ills which infested the former regime, to restore the faith of our people in their fatherland and its institutions, so that when the time comes for the civilian government to return, a healthy body politic would have emerged, and last vestiges of bitter factionalism removed.

National Military Government Country Former regime
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When I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.

Evils Apartheid Heart bleeds Blooded
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We cannot pretend that we are unaware of the machinations and conspiracies against our Continent by not just the racists of South Africa but even with those who pretend to be the friends of this Continent but whose sole interest is in what they can get out of us.

Pretend Machinations Conspiracies Racist
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Africa has Come of age. It is no longer under the orbit of any extra continental power. It should no longer take orders from any country, however powerful.

Africa No longer Power Orbit
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The new weapon is no longer the Bible and the flag, but destabilization and armaments. Africa should show its awareness of this new danger and see the Angolan situation not as an isolated affair but as part of the greater danger

Weapon Greater danger Armaments The flag
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We spend our meagre resources in maintaining peace and order, often to the advantage of the military industrial complexes in the so-called developed world. The gap between them and us then grows even wider, we become even weaker and create greater conditions for the interference of the developed countries in our domestic affairs.

Spend Meagre Resources Military
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The fortunes of Africa are in our hands to make or mar. For too long have we been kicked around; for too long have we been treated like adolescents who cannot discern their interests and act accordingly; For too long, it has been presumed that Africa needs outside ‘experts’ to tell him who are his friends and who are his enemies.

Fortunes Africa Mar Too long
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If Africa does in fact rank so low in United States concern, it becomes even more irritating that an American Administration should suddenly take upon itself to dictate to this august assembly how to settle an African problem.

Race African problem United States.Concern Rank so low
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The monetary crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of the economies of the developed countries and the extent to which their prosperity has been built on our poverty.

The monetary Crisis Economics Prosperity
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As long as the neo-colonialists who pretend to be our friends succeed to set one section against another, they will ensure our continued dependence on them.

Succeed Dependence Our friends Pretend
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I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Never expect Perfect work Imperfect man
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Well adjusted Person Makes Same mistakes
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Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

Who stand For nothing Fall Everything
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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

Give Power Many Oppress
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Peace War Be left Our option
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To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

General purpose One people Individual citizen
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Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Vigor Government Essential Security
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For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In politics In religion Equally Making proselytes
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If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

Must have An enemy Government Can oppose
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

National debt Not excessive National blessing
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Have thought My duty Exhibit things They ought
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Experience The oracle Truth Responses
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Militarily, Boko Haram is defeated

Boko Haram Militarily Defeated
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