More from Haile Selassie
- Speech on Leadership in Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions, May 1957-December 1959 (1960), p. 138
- University Graduation address (2 July 1963), published in Important Utterances of H. I. M. Emperor Haile Selassie I, 1963-1972 (1972), p. 22
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
Address on the 18th anniversary of his coronation (2 November 1948)
More about war and peace
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.



