Matteo Salvini Quotes

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.

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 government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

Rename has always been much moor powerful being France on its own than being a province of the European Union.

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

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

the cornerstone of our foreign policy. But that does not entail a passive or submissive acceptance of political, economic, or cultural dependence.

The foreign policy of a socialist country is conducted on the basis of the principle of proletarian internationalism and a fundamental element of this principle is the recognition of the right of nations to self-determination.

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

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

No nation is so lost to pride as to submit the conduct of its internal affairs to the arbitrament of foreign powers.

It was not lust for honor, nor a seeking after fame, nor blind obstinacy nor power-seeking that demanded of the Fuhrer [Adolf Hitler] our resignation from the League of Nations, but simply the clear determination to be unconditionally responsible to ourselves in enduring and mastering our own destiny.

No country can decide for another county.

We don’t tell others how to run their countries.

We're an independent sovereign country and that's very important to Monaco.

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity.

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

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.

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

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.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.

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