Pauline Marois Quotes

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

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever! Independence now and forever! Independence forever!

We do not want to be anybody's pawns. We are an ancient people. We want our autonomy. We want sarbasti—freedom. I do not know who will take my place one day. But they cannot crush us.

I wished only the well-being of my country in insurrection and independence.

All my people want is independence under a protectorate.

The time has come. It is Independence or Death!

If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

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 first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Independence now and independence forever.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

We're seeking sovereignty because it is absolutely essential, like the ripening of the fruit, like reaching adulthood, like the opening of river into the ocean. It is necessary because we are a people.

These colonies are, and of right ought to be, individual states.

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.

We do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people; are, and of right ought to be a sovereign and self-governing association, under the control of no power, other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress: To the maintenance of which Independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation, our Lives, our Fortunes, and our most Sacred Honor

I am English, born in freedom.

I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for, since the days of Nimrod, to wit, a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

Liberty and Nationality are mere lyrics to them of which they understand nothing.

I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.