We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.