Antonis Samaras Quotes

No country can decide for another county.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Hungary together with her annexed territories is independent and should be governed and administered according to her own laws and customs and not as other provinces are.

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

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

It was not lust for honor, nor a seeking after fame, nor blind obstinacy nor power-seeking that demanded of the Fuhrer [Adolf Hitler] our resignation from the League of Nations, but simply the clear determination to be unconditionally responsible to ourselves in enduring and mastering our own destiny.

We can not want Democracy more than they [the Iraqis] do and expect to succeed.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.

I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.

I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.

Hong Kong is not an independent entity... and cannot decide, on its own, its political development.

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

Ukrainians are entitled to decide their own future.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .