Dick Thornburgh Quotes

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

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

Quebec is the Western world's last colonial nation.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

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.

We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction.

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The Sami, as an indigenous people, as well as the Roma and other groups, have the right to maintain and develop their own language and culture.

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

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.

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