Charles George Chinese Gordon Quotes

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

We don’t tell others how to run their countries.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

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

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

We are pursuing what I trust is a correct course from the point of international law, and we are not intervening in the internal affairs of this country …

It's time to bring dignity, honor, self-reliance, and self-government to people that have been held, not necessarily in bondage, but certainly as supplicants under an Indian Act that is archaic.

Our purpose is not to interfere with the laws and customs which are beneficial to your people.

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

We have a clear right to expect, therefore, that no European Government will seek to establish colonial dependencies upon the territory of these independent American States.

No country can decide for another county.

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

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.

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.