Theodor Herzl Quotes

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.

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.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

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

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

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.

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.

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

...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.

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

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

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

At the end of the day, Israel is its own self-determining government.

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.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

I'm always independent. No boss.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

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.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.