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Quotes About Territory

Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans; so are its resources.
~ Robert Mugabe
I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.
~ Ruth Westheimer
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I like to stay within the zone of one character. It would disturb me to break away and go into an entirely different territory.
~ Farhan Akhtar
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
~ Italo Calvino
A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
~ Rhodesian proverb
China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
~ Chou Enlai
I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.
~ John Daly
America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it.
~ Justin Hayward
Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.
~ Ali Babacan
Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
~ Ilan Stavans
You can't say the word 'queen' without a little bit of 'drama' in front of it, right? It comes with the territory. Throwing shade and all that is part of the gig, but it should all kind of be in fun at the end of the day. When you start turning down that dark road where there's no light? Sometimes you put the car in park.
~ Alyssa Edwards
The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
~ Joseph Stalin
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
~ David Ben-Gurion
Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
~ Joseph Stalin
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
~ Joseph Stalin
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
~ Benito Mussolini
Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.
~ Adolf Hitler
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
~ Ronald Reagan
The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
~ Caroline Glick