Nationalism Quotes

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

Karl Marx

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Rolf Hochhuth

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Henry David Thoreau

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.

George Orwell

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is always something new out of Africa.

Pliny the Elder

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Stewart Parnell

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Benjamin Disraeli

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

James Barrie

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

W. Somerset Maugham

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Aristide Briand

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Virgil

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.

John Foster Dulles

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Franklin P. Jones

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Giambattista Vico

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Dag Hammarskjold