Charles Stewart Parnell Quotes

We can never beat England, can’t even remain long in a fight with her on her own terms. All we can do, and it should be enough, is to remain Irish in spite of her, and work out our destiny in the very many fields in which we are free to do so.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

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.

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.

Today the Turkish nation is called on to defend its capacity for civilization, its right to life and independence – its entire future.

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

There is not a man here [in Congress] who does not feel four hundred percent bigger in 1900—bigger intellectually, bigger, hopefully, bigger patriotically that he as a citizen of a country that has become a world power.

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

My countrymen, the currents of destiny flow through the hearts of the people. Who will check them ? Who will divert them? Who will stop them?

That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation, as well as the more fortunate white race, and have the inalienable right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," so long as they obey the laws and do not trespass on forbidden ground

I believe that every people and every nation has the right to be free and independent.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

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.

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

Change happens at the frontier.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.