Ronald Reagan Quotes

A country without borders is not a country.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

We've got have a country.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Every nation, civilized or primitive, sees its land as its national home, where it wants to be the sole landlord forever. Such a nation will never willingly consent to new landlords or even to partnership.

Our ancestors have always regarded independence as fundamental to the concept of a nation.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.

Me myself, I'm not a big fan of the idea of countries.

If you don't have borders, we don't have a country.

We have no country if we have no border.

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

We are not obligated to open our borders and let America be dissolved to nothing simply because it's the greatest on earth and that's unfair.

Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Just as one wife does not have two husbands so one land does not have two sovereign nations in possession of it.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

No state has a divine right to exist.

There is no such thing as a line of defense. Only an area to defend. That area consists of the entire Motherland. Not one inch of our country can be abandoned unless drenched with the blood of its people.