"To be the father of a nation..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
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“From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.”
“Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.”
“In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”