Quotes About Nationalism

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would some day graduate from Canada.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves; Britains never will be slaves.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.

The flag of our Union forever!

Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-reed The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.