Ivica Dacic Quotes

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction.

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

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

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

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.

Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.

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

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.