Charles Stewart Parnell Quotes

No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.

We will save our sovereign rights as a nation.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

We're not obligated to watch ourselves be dissolved away simply because it's not fair that we're so big and powerful. And a lot of people think that it is. And it's not. It's not an obligation. You wouldn't let your own home be treated this way. You wouldn't let your own neighborhood be treated this way. And you don't have to let your own country, either.

What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can't bow down to a municipality... it's just not intelligent. The bastards will do what they have to do, and we'll do what we have to do. Even if they annihilate us, we'll go down on the other side.

Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right.

We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

All I can say is we will fully utilise our right to self-defence. No one can just do what they want on our borders.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

If you don't have borders, we don't have a country.

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

Why doesn't anyone address the substantive question of why other states blatantly interfere in Israel's internal affairs? Israel does not meddle in the affairs of other states in a similar way, so why do other countries feel entitled to do this to Israel? These actions violate Israeli sovereignty and I expect European Union member states to act differently.

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

I do not think I have the right to determine the political future of Syria, be it with or without al-Assad. This is for the Syrians themselves to decide. Nobody has the right to claim the rights that belong to the people of another country.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.

[Vladimir] Putin spoke unabashedly about the importance of national sovereignty in Syria, a concept apparently near and dear to his heart, unless it comes to the sovereignty of Georgia, Ukraine or any other country in which he intervenes. Then he offered his cooperation, but without making any concrete concessions at all. And he didn't have to, either. He knows what he can rely on. He has assets that are more valuable than words: He has tanks in Ukraine, fighter jets in Syria - and Barack Obama in the White House.

We've got have a country.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.