Ann Widdecombe Quotes

I think I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for …, to wit a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

I hope we shall never be disposed to offer to join the United States. They will display a great reluctance to take us but I believe we have a future of our own here.

Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life.

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

Independence is happiness.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Every person is king in his own home.

Independence now and independence forever.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever! Independence now and forever! Independence forever!

With it we can create our own destiny. It’s a sovereignty issue. It’s our land, and we’ll do what we want with it.