Quotes About Nationalism

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

Cinema plays an important role in uniting the entire nation as a single unit.

I want to unite our people and our country. I will serve you with humility and force in the name of liberte, egalite, fraternite.

The national team should unite under one flag, leaving out the club stories.

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making it ripe for independence.

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order and, as a by-product, served to unite the country, ripe for independence.

As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.

We shall establish an united Chinese Republic in order that all the peoples - Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, Tartars, and Chinese - should constitute a single powerful nation.

There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to control our destinies again. This is an existential issue for the whole of Europe, not just for the U.K., because this sentiment is not limited to the United Kingdom.

I believe the vote for Brexit was the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able to mobilise the population against an enemy and that imagined enemy is the United States.

What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?