ratikanta1968 quote: “Education is a systematic process and has a certain territory but learning is unsystematic and has no territory.”

“A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)
Context: A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever." It is of the first importance to duly consider and estimate this ever-enduring part.

“The territorial state has not always existed in the past, so it need not necessarily exist in the future.”

Joseph Nye (1937) American political scientist

Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 9, A New World Order?, p. 262.

“Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/24/remarks-president-obama-and-president-hollande-france-joint-press (November 24, 2015)
2015

“The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.”

William McKinley (1843–1901) American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901)

Quoted from July 12, 1900, on 1900 US campaign poster, of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt.
1900s

“There is no defense line, but defense territory. This territory is the whole of the motherland!”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey

His order to the Turkish army at the Battle of Sakarya (26 August 1921); Turkish, as quoted in Bugünkü Türkiye (1937), by Stephan Ronart, p. 127
Variant translation: There is no defense line, but a defense territory, and that territory is the whole of the motherland. Not even an inch of the motherland may be abandoned without being soaked in the blood of her citizens...
English translation, as quoted in History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (1976) by Stanford Jay Shaw

“Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.”

Robert Anton Wilson book Prometheus Rising

Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 4 : The Anal Emotional Territiorial Circuit, p. 68

“What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.”

Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) former Palestinian President, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

As quoted in "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh in The New York Times (1 August 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/opinion/02karsh.html?_r=1&hp.
2000s

“Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territory — its great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippi — as well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.”

John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) 7th Vice President of the United States

Letter to Richard Pakenham, British minister to the United States, concerning the boundary dispute between the two countries (3 September 1844)
1840s

“Often we'll verge on embarrassing territory, a certain over-the-topness. But maybe that's just trying to unveil something that's inside all of us.”

Matthew Bellamy (1978) English singer-songwriter

[2001-10-11, http://museandamuse3.free.fr/press/articles_nme2.html, Vengence is ours (History of the band), NME, museandamuse3.free.fr, 2018-06-08, https://archive.li/J2FiB, no, 2018-06-08]

“We have hopes about that because the process which has continued for many years must lead to a peaceful resolution. But of course it will depend on the willingness of Armenia to comply to international law norms, to withdraw the troops from the international recognized territories of Azerbaijan, and then peace will be established”

Ilham Aliyev (1961) 4th President of Azerbaijan from 2003

Euronews interview on issue of Nagorno-Karabakh (02 February 2010) http://www.euronews.com/2010/02/02/interview-with-ilham-aliyev-president-of-azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh

“Education is a systematic process and has a certain territory but learning is unsystematic and has no territory.”

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