Quotes About Nationalism

My one ambition is to get all Americans to realize that they are, and must continue to be, the greatest Race on the face of this old Earth, and second, to realize that whatever apparent Differences there may be among us, in wealth, knowledge, skill, ancestry or strength—though, of course, all this does not apply to people who are racially different from us—we are all brothers, bound together in the great and wonderful bond of National Unity, for which we should all be very glad.

I don't altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you've got to hand it to 'em, they've been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, 'Just tend to your own

Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'? And wartime censorship of honest papers? Bad as Russia!

We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.

Not answering him at all, Sarason demanded that, in order to bring and hold all elements in the country together by that useful Patriotism which always appears upon threat of an outside attack, the government immediately arrange to be insulted and menaced in a well-planned series of deplorable incidents on the Mexican border, and declare war on Mexico as soon as America showed that it was getting hot and patriotic enough.

Intellectually, I know America is no better than any other country. Emotionally, I know she is better than every other country.

It had become a disease with both nations, he reflected, this discussion of Britain vs. America; this incessant, irritated, family scolding. Of course back in the cornfields of the Middlewest, people didn't often discuss it, nor did the villagers on the Yorkshire moors, nor Cornish fishermen. But the people who traveled and met their cousins of the other nation, the people who fed on newspapers on either side the water, they were all obsessed.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... And how many want out.

he hated the phony patriots, the goddamn goose-stepping flag-waving patriots, who really loved the status quo more than they loved the country and its promises unfulfilled.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age—unless you're an American, of course.

the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. No other nation has landed on the Moon. Satellites and space stations in orbits around the earth, yes, but no other nation has 'mounted up' or 'ascended' so far into the heavens, except for America, making this identity clue fascinatingly applicable only to one nation. Needless to say, neither Iraq nor any Church has accomplished such a deed.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.

[America] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

in World War I, Canada lost 60,000 young men, from a total population of 7 million. If the United States had lost a similar ratio in Vietnam, it wouldn't have lost 58,000 men but 1.7 million—or almost thirty times more.

Jamie let go of me. "Shut your mucky gob, man." He stepped close to our fearless leader in the dark, took hold of his jacket by the collar, and in a dead quiet voice that had gone dangerously Scots, threatened heatedly, "Talk like that again wi' these brave lassies listenin' an' Ah'll tear the filthy English tongue frae yer heid, so Ah will.

Rose: Last thing every night, some unseen voice would yell into the dark, 'Vive la France!' and someone else would answer, 'God bless America!

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...

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România e geografie, nu e istorie. ÎnÈ›elege cineva acest tragic?

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Alla vigilia della "marcia su Roma", durante un convegno del Pnf tenuto a Napoli (24 ottobre 1922), il duce proclamò che il fascismo rispettava la monarchia e l'esercito, riconosceva il valore della religione cattolica, intendeva attuare una politica liberista favorevole al capitale privato e restaurare l'ordine e la disciplina nel paese.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.