Wilbur Smith Quotes

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

No new state is ever fully ready for independence ..

The test of a good colonial policy is that it shall prepare colonies for independent self—government.

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 have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

There is a perception of the general irrelevance of aboriginal culture….We haven't gone anywhere. We still exist. …. Get the hell out of our lives and give us our land back.

All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.

At the attainment of independence, the British handed over to us a decent system of Government in which everyone had a say. …. Organization of African unity or no Organization of African unity, I will claim my citizenship of Ghana and of the Commonwealth in any part of the world. I have been trained in the United Kingdom as a soldier, and I am ever prepared to fight alongside my friends in the United Kingdom in the same way as Canadians and Australians will do.

The colonial powers especially the more heedless ones ... dumped their former possessions on the threshold of independence with little if any preparation for statehood.

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.

The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

Honestly, Russia should want it, to give our territory, our land back to us.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.

If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

Anybody who respects democracy has to keep in mind that never in this country was a separate state carved out without a resolution being passed in the assembly.

At the end of the day, Israel is its own self-determining government.