72 Quotes About Congo

It was a measure that brought salvation, if General Mobutu had not done so, I and some members of my party would no longer be alive.

You should purchase as much land as you will be able to obtain without losing one minute from all the chiefs from the mouth of the Congo to Stanley falls, i will send you more people and raw materials, and perhaps Chinese couriers.

I will give them my Congo, but they have no right to know what i did there.

The barge was an invention of my own. It was 40 feet long, 6 feet beam, and 30 inches deep, of Spanish cedar 3/8 inches thick.

I was received with an overwhelming display of military and civilian tributes, all the way to the royal palace where I was to stay, troops were lined up behind which enthusiastic people were chanting their viva, it seemed to me that a major change had come in the Belgian public opinion on the importance of the Congo, when I first went there, the Belgian newspapers spouted nothing but criticism, they were completely dumbfounded, the king was recognized as the great benefactor of the nation.

We have attacked and destroyed 28 large towns, and 3 or 4 score villages

A People which is content with its homeland and which shreds at even the shadow of a conflict lacks the characteristics of a superior race.

There are no small countries, only small minds.

Nations that renounce ambition are nations with no future.