Stephen F. Austin Quotes

The same effort that would get us Dominion Home Rule will get us a Republic.

Sub-national, ethnic or tribal factions cannot expect to undermine the political unit in which they exist while claiming the privileges of a sovereign nation-state.

The right of a State to secede is not an open or debatable question

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States … to be fee, sovereign, and independent states.

You must not expect the central government of any country to encourage separatism.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

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.

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

No new state is ever fully ready for independence ..

If Brazil should decide on separation, let it be under your leadership, since you are bound to respect me, rather than under one of these adventurers.

Hungary together with her annexed territories is independent and should be governed and administered according to her own laws and customs and not as other provinces are.

When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.

Nations have the tendency to be born in blood.

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.