Quotes About Nationalism

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

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe.

John Quincy Adams' dictum that wherever the standard of liberty was unfurled in the world, "there will be America's heart … but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

In the end Britain made rebels where there had been none.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

Whatever our lot may be, August 4, 1914, will remain for all eternity one of Germany's greatest days!

Bismarck has broken the nation's backbone," he wrote in 1886. "The injury done by the Bismarck era is infinitely greater than its benefits.… The subjugation of the German personality, of the German mind, was a misfortune that cannot be undone.

Charles de Gaulle once said, "The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

An abandoned shoe, a rotten tooth, a snub nose, the cook spitting in the soup of his masters are to love what a battle flag is to nationality.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.

It is not white nationalism to believe that countries like the United States would be better off with more babies. That belief can be held for racist reasons by racists, but it can also be held, reasonably and righteously, by people who worry about the economic consequences of demographic decline.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Argentina should grow with a project of its own and implemented by Argentines, not dictated by foreigners with old recipes that always fail.

It is hard to categorise every accolade you have won. Getting into the Hall of Fame is great. It is fantastic to be recognised by your own country. To be part of the history of our national game is simply humbling.

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people.