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Quotes About Nationalism

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
~ Homer
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
~ David Lloyd George
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
~ Henry Steele Commager
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
~ James Larkin
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
~ David Lloyd George
I am a man who loves my country, the United States.
~ Donald Trump
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
~ Bobby Fischer
A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
~ Martin Heidegger
Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.
~ Daniel Webster
The Hitler Experience was made possible as a result of group consciousness. Many people want to say that Hitler manipulated a group—in this case, his countrymen—through the cunning and the mastery of his rhetoric.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The only passport you need in America is American Express.
~ Nelson DeMille
O brasileiro é um feriado.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe ... then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans. They will know how to do it better than the most gifted among us.'25
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
the German Workers' Party. Their principal goal, declared its leader in 1913, was 'the maintenance and increase of [German] living space' (Lebensraum) against the threat posed by Czech Halbmenschen ('half-humans'). This was in fact a response to the creation of a Czech National Socialist Party in 1898.
~ Niall Ferguson
South Slav (Yugoslav)
~ Niall Ferguson
In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?
~ Niall Ferguson
The reality, then, was that Indian nationalism was fuelled not by the impoverishment of the many but by the rejection of the privileged few.
~ Niall Ferguson
World War I saw the birth of total war, in the sense that it was fought between societies as much as armies.
~ Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
~ Balkan Wars
I remember, growing up, you didn't wear an England shirt. The English flag was very much - and still is, to some extent - associated with the far-right movements of the 1980s that I grew up around.
~ Riz Ahmed
There have always been small anti-Korea movements, and I think it's all due to cultural differences.
~ Ok Taec-yeon
Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.
~ Maxime Bernier
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.
~ Norman Davies