Approves Quote by Pedro Pierluisi

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

— Moshe Dayan

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.

— Pedro Pierluisi

Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial…

— Paul Virilio

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

— Mahmoud Abbas

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

— John Roberts

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

— Ronald Reagan

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…

— Michael Ignatieff

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves…

— James Madison

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

— Sophocles

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

— Geert Wilders