Benigno Aquino III Quotes

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

We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

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.

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

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.

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.

Reject treaties that weaken or encroach upon American sovereignty.

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

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.

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.

All members will refrain in their international relations from the threat or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

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.

Peace upon any other basis than national independence, peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity, is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased at such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

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.