Quotes About Nationalism

We're in America; why do I have to "Press 1" for English?

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

La Historia con mayúscula la escriben siempre los vencedores, pero su versión no tiene por qué ser eterna. Algunos países europeos, como Polonia o Hungría, han sabido integrar el fracaso de sus luchadores por la libertad en el patrimonio de su orgullo nacional, asumiendo que ciertas derrotas, lejos de implicar deshonor, pueden ser más honrosas que muchas victorias.

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

We can't take our ball and go home when the consequences mean a weaker America.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

We would not accept any country telling us who to buy weapons from and who not to buy from.

Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans.

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Of course many children are dreaming to play for Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United. I always just wanted to wear the jersey of Partizan, Newcastle, and Serbia.

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

I'm not afraid to say it - I'm proud to be from a nation that wears its heart on its sleeve and isn't scared to show its feelings.

Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest.

I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

You have your heart on your sleeve when you play games, but playing for your country is special, you dream about it as a wee boy.

Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and occupied by the Nazis and the Russians... We pop up and disappear and we do not trust what we are told to believe.