Quotes About Sovereignty

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.

The U.S. actions in Kosovo - carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation - provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.

I think everybody in Ukraine is so tired about Burisma. We have our own country. We have our independence, we have our problems and questions.

It is not all right for Russia to decide Ukraine's future.

People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people in Ukraine have their right to be free.

The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Laws are inoperative in war

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.