Territorial Claims Quotes

I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Every nation, civilized or primitive, sees its land as its national home, where it wants to be the sole landlord forever. Such a nation will never willingly consent to new landlords or even to partnership.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

The concept of Blood and Soil gives us the moral right to take back as much land in the East as is necessary to establish a harmony between the body of our Volk and the geopolitical space.

No nation should have the right to simply grab land from another nation.

The Japanese will not be opposed to America keeping Okinawa because the Okinowans are not Japanese.

Palestinians want Israel to return back into boundaries, the width of which is 12 km., that can be cut into pieces within minutes.

For half a millennium, Russian foreign policy has been characterized by soaring ambitions that have exceeded the country’s capabilities.

As for your pope of whom you speak, he must be mad to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.

Arunachal Pradesh was with India, is with India, and will remain with India.

I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

It is inconceivable that we will recognize the right of our enemy [Israel] over any piece of territory on Palestinian soil.

I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

It (the proclamation of 1763) must fall, of course, in a few years, especially when those Indians consent to our occupying the lands. Any person, therefore, who neglects the present opportunity of hunting out good lands, and in some measure marking out and distinguishing them for his own, in order to keep others from settling them, will never regain it.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

Though the Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable, and heretofore unquestioned right to the lands they occupy … it may well be doubted whether those tribes which reside within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can, with strict accuracy, be denominated foreign nations….They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will… they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian. They look to our government for protection; rely upon its kindness and its power; appeal to it for relief to their wants; and address the President as their Great Father. They and their country are considered by foreign nations, as well as by ourselves, as being so completely under the sovereignty and dominion of the United States that any attempt to acquire their lands, or to form a political connection with them, would be considered by all as an invasion of our territory and an act of hostility.

America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.

A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in a different language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.