Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

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.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

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.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

…consign the surplus to the state and its gods.

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

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

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.

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

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

All border crossings in and out of Iraq must be under the exclusive control of the federal state.

Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to take the initiative.

The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”

They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.