Quotes About Nationalism

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

No one has yet convinced me a dollar stranded overseas is better than a dollar brought back home here to America for any reasons. So, if a company needs it, whether it's to do research, buy another business in America, grow jobs or try to become more financially strong, that is good for the United States.

Those who do not put clear limits on migration will soon start to feel like strangers in their own land.

German poets betrayed their savagery, being moved 'more by hatred for other people's countries than by love of their own'.3

a local priest, Canon Cohalan of Bandon, preached a famous sermon in which he thundered: 'The day Michael Collins was killed where was de Valera?

We'll not have this Treaty executed. Let us rather execute the man who signed it for us behind our backs.'36 Griffith said of the article in which the foregoing occurrred: 'I say that is a deliberate incitement to the assassination of the plenipotentiaries and they won't get off with it... I know the atmosphere which is being prepared. You may assassinate us but you won't intimidate us.

The second again precludes them from again attempting what has so often failed in the past, the establishment of a single parliament for all Ireland on the lines of the Home Rule Acts of 1886, 1893 and 1914.

They had seen how the taint of being pro-German had weakened the Irish-American movement during the war.

Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly.

whenever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight off what the Irish people wanted.

whenever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight off what the Irish people wanted.' What an examination of his heart on this occasion told him was required was his re-election so that he could pick a new Cabinet and 'throw out that Treaty'.

The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should "build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven" against immigrants.

The guiding principle was the superiority of white, Protestant, native-born Americans over everyone else.

There's nothing wrong with promoting white supremacy, it was only race pride, he said. 'I cannot see anything anti-American in that

I am the spirit of righteousness. They call me the Ku Klux Klan I am more than the uncouth robe and hood With which I am clothed. Yea, I am the soul of America.

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

A nationalist will say that "it can't happen here," which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.

A nationalist...is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.

patriotism involves serving your own country.

Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.

A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.

It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It

Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in many parts of the world today. It is that history and experience that reveals to us the dark range of our possible futures. A nationalist will say that "it can't happen here," which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.