Unitary State Quotes

The Turkish state has neither a crowned head nor a dictator.

The kingdom is not divisible. Regnum non est divisible.

The Iraqi constitution is clear in two articles: one says that Iraq is united, and the second one prevents any legislation or acts that impact its unity even from the regional side.

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state.

You must not expect the central government of any country to encourage separatism.

Israel is not an anarchy.

Russia will preserve itself as a unitary state by all means. This will take place either through the civilized constitutional process or through crude force, arbitrary rule and dictatorship.

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

The United States is the last remaining sovereign state.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

The deepening political crisis in our country has been a matter of grave concern to me for quite some time, and I now consider it necessary in the national interest for the African National Congress and the government to meet urgently to negotiate an effective political settlement. Two central issues will have to be addressed at such a meeting: firstly, the demand for majority rule in a unitary state; secondly, the concern of white South Africa over this demand, as well as the insistence of whites on structural guarantees that majority rule will not mean domination of the white minority by blacks. The most crucial task which will face the government and the ANC will be to reconcile these two positions.