Quotes About Nationalism

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land

What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.