Quotes About Nationalism

The slaughter at Gallipoli symbolized the national pride of Australians, now fighting for their British motherland as Australians, not as Victorians or Tasmanians or South Australians—and the emotional dedication with which Australians publicly identified themselves as loyal British subjects.

We have a bubbling successful melting pot in this country so long as the ingredients are essentially European.

America First," a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s

If you want your fridge freezer and your car, a nice house, and asphalt on the roads, and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this and thank [a major corporation]. [War] is good, good for England, and especially good for the economy. You deride the weapons business, but without it we would be a 10th rate country struggling to maintain a standard of living anywhere anywhere near that of our european neighbors.

Even I was not immune to the passion of the battle. When I first went to the peninsula I was excited by the war—I could feel the insidious hand of nationalism holding me upright and smothering my reason.

Independentistas, en Cataluña, ha habido siempre desde hace un siglo: gente con mucho corazón y poca cabeza

Sánchez Mazas) "Sea como fuere, lo cierto es que saludó en una seria de crónicas tituladas Italia a paso gentil, y que vio en Benito Mussolini la reencarnación de los condotieros renacentistas y en su ascensión al poder el anuncio de que el tiempo de los héroes y los poetas había vuelto a Italia

Al empezar la democracia, el nacionalismo instauró en Cataluña una cleptocracia clientelar. O sea, el gobierno autonómico robaba a los ciudadanos y el producto del saqueo se lo repartían entre el partido del gobierno y las familias del partido del gobierno, empezando por la familia del presidente.

Siempre se dice que el deporte europeo por excelencia es el fútbol, pero es mentira: el deporte europeo por excelencia es la guerra.

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Patriotism was a great thing but it worked best when it was tempered by common sense.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs.

The English and the French have not a single memory in common. Everything that London suffered with pride, Paris suffered in shame and despair. It is important for us to learn to speak of ourselves without emotion

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

The best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

As a Canadian, I feel like we all have a stake in the business here. And no matter how far you stray - and I've been down in L.A. for a long time - no matter how far you stray you have a stake in the state of the business... It really does matter and I'm always rooting for the entire country.

Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.