Quotes About Nationalism

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

I don't want to be another country. I want to be the United States of America, the greatest country in the world.

As much as I love the Dallas Cowboys, I love the United States of America more.

When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I'm sorry, that just ticks me off.

The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country.

I'm a huge sports fan, but I am also a huge supporter of the United States of America and our militaries and everything that we've got for us.

I love my country. I love the United States of America. I'd rather be here than any place else.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

What unites us is an unconditional love for France.

As a politician, I worked very, very hard in order to maintain the unity of our country. That was my aim.

I have every reason, despite the resentment and exasperation, to be proud. I have nothing better to be proud of than being proud of German unity.

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

I fought for years in South Sudan for the unity of Sudan. I was a commander in the fields, fighting for the unity of Sudan.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.