Zividan Javonovic Quotes

State Creation: A growth Industry.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct states, is a fundamental principle of public law. It is a necessary consequence of this equality that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion, or a course of internal policy, to another. No state is entitled to take cognizance or notice of the domestic administration of another state, or of what passes within it as between the government and its own subjects

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

The world consists of, and is divided by, sovereign states which recognize no superior authority.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

Canada is not another [American] State, and we don't want to be one.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

No people likes to be ruled by foreigners.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs: by which means they had so visible an influence upon our whole administration, that we have, from that time, appeared to the rest of the world more like a conquered province, than a free independent people

The Labour party believes in the right of peoples to govern themselves, and to enjoy a way of life which they themselves decide upon. We concede that right to Russia. We concede that right to Germany, and it is because we are claiming it for ourselves, and Germany denies it to us, that we are at war with Germany

No foreign Power can consistently yield Comfort to Rebels, or enter into any kind of Treaty with these Colonies until they [the Colonies] declare themselves free and independent.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

If we are not represented, we are slaves.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.