“I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.”

As for us, during twenty years’ reign, we have known much bitterness.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

When no one aids you, you build your own legs.

You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it’s your own child. And that’s what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.

Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights.

It’s been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of.

When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise.