Benjamin Cohen Quotes

The government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

Being a minority in a supergovernment [world government], the political, economic, and social control of our own country would ultimately pass from our own hands, and all the assurances of our fundamental institutions would be lost.

If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

The most powerful single force in the world today…man’s eternal desire to be free and independent.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

There is nothing as important as freedom and independence.

American interests dictate that we teach other peoples to govern themselves.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how to live and making promises for them that their lives would get better and talking about a future based on globalism versus family and individual and local community. That's what Brexit was all about.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.