Ivan Fecan Quotes

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.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""

There will be no annexation of ourselves or our territory to an independent Quebec without our consent.

We want an independent Quebec within a strong and united Canada.

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

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.

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.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

No new state is ever fully ready for independence ..

Quebec will secede from Canada and form an independent republic. The 3 prairie provinces--Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba--will likewise secede and become part of the U.S.

Independence now and independence forever.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

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.

We're seeking sovereignty because it is absolutely essential, like the ripening of the fruit, like reaching adulthood, like the opening of river into the ocean. It is necessary because we are a people.

No nation is ever ready for independence. How many Western states, including the United States of America, were ready for independence.

Our country should be all Canadian and all British.

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

... we have no dynasty of our own and no liking for a foreign dynasty.