Quotes About Nationalism

If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country.

You are the eternal France, I love you.

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

There is an essential goodness in Americans. They love this country.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.

I would submit that if you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot.

Others did not fare so well. A German man in St. Louis who was believed to have spoken ill of his adopted country was set upon by a mob, dragged through the streets tied up in an American flag, and hanged. A jury subsequently found the mob leaders not guilty on the grounds that it had been a "patriotic murder.

I had no idea that the Scottish so loathed the English that their favorite team in the world is whichever one is presently playing England.

inclined toward Jews or Catholics. The head of the Municipal Reference Library announced that he had independently destroyed all books and pamphlets in his care that struck him as dubious. "I now have an America First library," he said proudly.

It is perhaps dangerous to conclude too much about the character and intentions of a nation based on the snacks menu in a railway carriage, but I couldn't help wonder if Scottish nationalism hasn't gone a little too far now. I mean, these poor people are denying themselves simple comforts like KitKats and Cornish pasties and instead are eating neeps and foot medication on grounds of patriotism. Seems a bit unnecessary to me.

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

New Rule: Americans have to come up with a better cheese to represent the nation than American cheese. I'm not even sure American cheese is cheese. I think it's aged Jell-O. And it doesn't need to be individually wrapped in plastic, either. You're thinking of condoms.

For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. Look out, Al-Qaeda---patriot on board! I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.

Trump said, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" He had just met with the prime minister of Norway. Why not more Norwegians?

America First often meant America Only.

Number one," Bannon went on, "we're going to stop mass illegal immigration and start to limit legal immigration to get our sovereignty back. Number two, you are going to bring manufacturing jobs back to the country. And number three, we're going to get out of these pointless foreign wars.

He is Englishness carried to perfection

His version of conservative populism played into the nativism, racism, sexism, insular xenophobic nationalism, and white rage that all had deep histories in this country. Not only were these uglier values part of the American political tradition, but in varying degrees they had served as a foundation of the strategies used by politicians who championed white working-and middle-class Americans. Trump just took it to another level and did so without any sense of hesitation or shame.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.