Winston Churchill Quotes

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.

The spirit of nationalism springs from the deepest of human emotions. It rises from the yearning of men to be free of foreign domination, to govern themselves. It springs from a thousand rills of race, of history, of sacrifice and pride in national achievement.

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

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

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

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

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.

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

They [Americans] were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created, people in the history of the world.

A man's neighbors or his landlord may be much cleverer than himself, and not without an indirect interest in his prosperity, but for all that his interests will be better attended to in his own keeping than in theirs.

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best.

You want independence. Go ahead. You are not worth Russian blood or money.

For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but from freedom—for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

Do you remember that night when you gave your country a free trade and with your hands opened all harbors. That night when you gave her a free constitution and broke her chains of slavery while England stood eclipsed by your glory, and your island arose as it were from it and got nearer the sun.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.