“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”

“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“God and government can work together”

“When it comes down to it, government is simply an abandonment of responsibility on the assumption that there are people, other than ourselves, who really know how to manage things. But the governme...”

“In our country let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy Nigeria unity.”

“Wagners music is better than it sounds.”

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”