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Quotes About Nationalism

The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.
~ Pauline Marois
Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.
~ Marine Le Pen
To be perfectly candid, we're better at stealing other people's secrets than anyone else in the world. But we self-limit. We steal secrets to keep our citizens free and safe.
~ Michael Hayden
C. P. Snow, the son of a church organist, recalled in 1940 being reassured by listening to Churchill. "He was an aristocrat, but he would cheerfully have beggared his class and friends, and everyone else too, if that was the price of the country coming through. We believed it of him. The poor believed it, as his voice rolled out into the slum streets, those summer evenings of 1940.
~ Thomas E. Ricks
He was fighting not for them but for a word. Ireland. Not moorlands and rivers, not people, but a word. The word was a bell, vibrant and thrilling, ringing through her memories of conversations. Ireland. Ireland was oppressed. Ireland must fight for its freedom. Ireland must take its place among the nations of the world.
~ Thomas Flanagan
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
~ Thomas Francis Meagher
The merchant has no country.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
~ Thomas Jefferson
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
~ Thomas Jefferson
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.
~ Thomas Paine
The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.
~ Thomas Paine
Commerce diminishes the spirit both patriotism and military defense.
~ Thomas Paine
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate prejudices between Nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.
~ Thomas Paine
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. With
~ Thomas Paine
Most of those who tell you they were in the resistance are fabulists at best. The worst are simply liars. It was a frighteningly small movement, covert, secret, and the price of discovery was monstrous. After the war, everyone wanted to believe that they had supported it. It is a collective French national fantasy.
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo
But how do you plan to convince everyone we're on the same side?" "Instead of being slaves to our toxic emotional times, we harness that outrage," said Serge. "So we just change the national slogan from 'Land of the Free' to 'Fuck Canada.' " Coleman nodded. "I think everyone can get behind that.
~ Tim Dorsey
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that's the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)
~ Tim Dorsey
Meagher's Ireland.
~ Tim Egan
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
~ Barry Pepper
I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
~ Eddi Reader
I don't want to have one currency for all North America.
~ Virgil Goode
Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.
~ Chris Coleman