Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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 is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world.

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

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.

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.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

[Czechoslovakia is] ... the godchild of the great and glorious Republic of the United States.

State Creation: A growth Industry.

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

Our colonies are great and growing nationalities.

Every nation, civilized or primitive, sees its land as its national home, where it wants to be the sole landlord forever. Such a nation will never willingly consent to new landlords or even to partnership.

The fact that we are smaller and weaker does not mean that we have less sovereignty than you.

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

They [Americans] were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created, people in the history of the world.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

No foreign Power can consistently yield Comfort to Rebels, or enter into any kind of Treaty with these Colonies until they [the Colonies] declare themselves free and independent.

Declaration of a state [Kurdistan] is the legitimate right of the Kurdish nation. This goal should be realized, but without resorting to violence.

Claim the State. Claim the nation.

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

Shouldn't India, too, like other countries, protect its national interests?

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.