Michael Gove Quotes

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.

When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.

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

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

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.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

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.

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.

It is difficult for the strongest advocate of national rights to assert that the people in actual occupation or political control over a given area of the earth are entitled to do what they will with "their own," entirely disregarding the direct and indirect consequences of their actions upon the rest of the world.

Independence now and independence forever.

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

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.

Sub-national, ethnic or tribal factions cannot expect to undermine the political unit in which they exist while claiming the privileges of a sovereign nation-state.

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

The more globalized the world becomes, the less traumatic it is for nationalists to split from their states.

Canada is not another [American] State, and we don't want to be one.

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.

There was a time when all efforts were made to erase the word "Bangla" from this land and its map. The existence of the word "Bangla" was found nowhere except in the term Bay of Bengal. I on behalf of Pakistan announce today that this land will be called "Bangladesh" instead of East Pakistan

...The right to self-determination refers to the right of a given population (usually a nation) to create its own future more or less free from external coercion, but within the limits of the historical realities with which it is faced.

I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.

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

A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

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.