Vision for Scotland in the European Union (December 12, 2007)
“…the leaders of an independent Scotland will be only too happy to trade away that independence in return for admission to the fleshpots of Brussels for themselves and their families, goes without saying; they have the example of Westminster to copy.”
To Scotland, with Love. p. 124.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
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Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 2 “The Great Kitchen” (p. 18)
Context: It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
“I would never pay any price if it meant that Scotland would become independent.”
Tory leadership: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt on Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48744493 BBC News (27 June 2019)
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“When the twenty-seven independent Trading Worlds”
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 16 “Conference”
Context: “When the twenty-seven independent Trading Worlds, united only by their distrust of mother planet of the Foundation, concert an assembly among themselves, and each is big with a pride grown of its smallness, hardened by its own insularity and embittered by eternal danger — there are preliminary negotiations to be overcome of a pettiness sufficiently staggering to heart-sicken the most persevering.”
Speech in Carlisle. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/04/alex-salmonds-st-georges-day-speech-full-text (23 April 2014)
"Summary of Principles" 1.3
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
“There can be no independent Poland without an independent Ukraine.”
2014 Crisis in Ukraine. Perspectives, Reflections, International Reverberations, ASLAN Publishing House, 9788393914173, 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=GAdOCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7,
As quoted in Vietnam: The Betrayal of a Revolution https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/10/20/vietnam-the-betrayal-of-a-revolution/baef22ef-5ee7-43f0-97d3-7dc02ab24533/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.865c3958cb61 (20 October 1991), by Bui Tin