Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Quotes

The spirit of nationalism springs from the deepest of human emotions. It rises from the yearning of men to be free of foreign domination, to govern themselves. It springs from a thousand rills of race, of history, of sacrifice and pride in national achievement.

Beyond independence, Americans had no consensus on what being an American meant.

A nationalist movement seeks its own country. A nationalist party seeks a country that will keep electing it.

On you, it primarily rests whether Ireland shall remain an integral portion of a great empire, sharing in its glory … or whether … Ireland shall become the focus and the center of foreign intrigue and deadly conspiracy.

Rename has always been much moor powerful being France on its own than being a province of the European Union.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

I support our country being our country.

The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.

Nexit is the best thing that can happen to us.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.

First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.

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

Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.

I believe a real democracy can only flourish when you have your own nation state, your own identity, even your own flag you can rally around.

My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from political union and re-engage with the rest of the world.

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

We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time; we had so many expectations of the kind of country we would become. The vision of the government then was a wonderful vision.

The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people in Ukraine have their right to be free.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to control our destinies again. This is an existential issue for the whole of Europe, not just for the U.K., because this sentiment is not limited to the United Kingdom.