Hugh Gaitskell Quotes

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history.

We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America.

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.

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

The true interest of the Crown is the keep that kingdom [Scotland] separate from England and to be governed by their own laws and Constitutions.

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

No nation is so lost to pride as to submit the conduct of its internal affairs to the arbitrament of foreign powers.

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their independent State may not be revoked. It is, moreover, the self-evident right of the Jewish people to be a nation, as all other nations, in its own sovereign State.

It is God’s will that the United States not be a nation of followers.

No country can decide for another county.

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

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

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.

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

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.

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.