Quotes About Nationalism

We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

God bless America. And no place else.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.

We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

Thank God, I also am an American!

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.