Sun Yat-sen Quotes

Hungary together with her annexed territories is independent and should be governed and administered according to her own laws and customs and not as other provinces are.

Sub-national, ethnic or tribal factions cannot expect to undermine the political unit in which they exist while claiming the privileges of a sovereign nation-state.

All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.

The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

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.

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 are not wedded to anyone in Syria. We are not concerned with any personality. We are concerned with keeping Syria in one piece, territorially integral, sovereign, independent and secular, where the rights of all groups, ethnic and others, are fully respected.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.

I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Today the Turkish nation is called on to defend its capacity for civilization, its right to life and independence – its entire future.

When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.

The country is the people.

The State of Israel represents and speaks only on behalf of its own citizens, and in no way presumes to represent or speak in the name of the Jews who are citizens of any other country.

A Volk [people] without a state is nothing, a lifelong frivolous phantom like the vagabond gypsies and Jews.

The representatives of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes declare a new and most categorically that our people constitutes but one nation, and that it is one in blood, one by the spoken and written language, by the continuity and unity of the territory in which it lives, and finally in virtue of the common and vital interests of its national existence and the general development of its moral and material life. The idea of its national unity has never suffered extinction, although all the intellectual forces of its enemy were directed against its unification, its liberty, and its national existence

For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was established, we are one people, with one common country, we are all citizens of the United States.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.