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Quotes About Nationalism

Freedom for my people, independence for my country, this is all I want, all what I understand.
~ Ho Chi Minh
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
~ Homer
As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
~ Unknown
Henry Clay is dead. His long and eventful life is closed. Our country is prosperous and powerful; but could it have been quite all it has been, and is, and is to be, without Henry Clay? Such a man the times have demanded, and such in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that in future national emergencies He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.
~ Unknown
We can't, little cricket. It is against the law to fly this flag - even to put up a picture of it. Korea is part of the Japanese Empire now. But someday this will be our own country once more. Your own country.
~ Linda Sue Park
We still spoke Korean at home, but on the streets we always had to speak Japanese.
~ Linda Sue Park
For westerners to passively accept and even abet incursions by foreigners so massive that the native-born are effectively surrendering their territory without a shot fired is biologically perverse.
~ Lionel Shriver
I love the Betsy Ross flag because it has the thirteen stars and a circle, which represents our thirteen colonies, and I think we need to get closer back to our founding values.
~ Madison Cawthorn
There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We will not be going back - no withdrawing. No compromises!
~ Marine Le Pen
American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.
~ Chris Murphy
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
~ Ann Coulter
Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
India has a national structure that accepts various languages. Nobody can dilute it.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
All the fantasies of Trump-Bannon nationalism require a vastly expanded state, with greater powers over the economy and society.
~ Rick Wilson
During the surge and in the years after the surge, Iraqi forces fought and died for their country at vastly higher numbers than did U.S. and coalition forces. We know that they can fight.
~ David Petraeus
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
~ Gerry Adams
We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques.
~ Marion Marechal-Le Pen
I've got Argentinian blood running through my veins, and I've always wanted to wear the shirt of my country.
~ Mauro Icardi
Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.
~ Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?
~ Hugo Chavez
And the America Firsters would raise an almighty hue and cry.
~ Jeffrey Archer
This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
One's country is like oneself. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The television show from inside the spacecraft would be even worse, with the happy, cocky Americans showing off for their countrymen back home—and showing up the people of Russia.
~ Jeffrey Kluger