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Quotes About Nationalism

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.
~ Justin Raimondo
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?
~ Sydney Smith
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
~ David Frum
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
~ Wally Herger
No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.
~ Ronald Reagan
I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.
~ Gaspar Noe
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
~ Howard Zinn
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
~ William Graham Sumner
If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.
~ William Joyce
What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.
~ Theresa Breslin, Remembrance
It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, " he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.
~ J.Adam Snyder
patriotism of many is....a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated than our currency.
~ David Ramsay
some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.
~ Harry Truman, Mr. Citizen
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
~ Evan Osnos
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
~ Arthur Miller
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Just as communism always begins with an appeal to "humanity" and equality" and ends with inhuman despotism, so does fascism always begin with an appeal to "nationalism" and "individualism," and ends with a military collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure.
~ Sydney J. Harris
No Jews now,' she chirruped, 'to waylay poor little lads and hang them up in cellars. It was a good day for England when they were packed off.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Great War was from the first the White Civil War,
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
Asia for the Asiatics' is being steadily preached
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
Tribes With Flags
~ Tahseen Bashir
There wasn't a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying our country?
~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh