Quotes About Sovereignty

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

If the lion knew his true strength it were hard for any man rule him.

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt in Bolivia and prevented a war between Ecuador and Colombia.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

I believe it is important for both Russia and Europe that Belarus is a sovereign, independent state where Europeans can feel at home.

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

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.