Quotes About Nationalism

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

The United States of America on our worst day is better than any other country on their best day. Period. End of story.

It's worth being clear - you know, I think that the ideas that somebody like Richard Spencer endorses and that other members of the self-identified white nationalist groups endorse - those ideas really are repellent to most people.

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

I have never said I would adopt the euro. Not today, not tomorrow, not in five years. We will introduce the euro when it will benefit Poles and Poland.

I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

My grandmother lived under Japanese colonial rule until she was nine. Korea, still united and whole, was colonized in 1910. During this period of forced occupation, Japanese teachers taught Korean students how to view the world through their imperialist language, their history, their foreign tongue.

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Austerity and Brexit are two sides of the same coin, like the Brexit party and the Tories.

The truth is the Tories don't own Brexit. No party owns Brexit and that includes the Brexit Party.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

The advantage of playing in Toronto is not playing for one city, you're playing for a country.

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

how he hated the word "homeland"; it sounded just one step shy of "fatherland"—