Nationalism Quotes

God made the country and man made the town.

William Cowper

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Malcolm Bradbury

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

Edouard Manes

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Adlai Stevenson

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Edmund Burke

Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.

Proverb

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

Proverb

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Walter Bagehot

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Pearl Buck

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

De Delloy

The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

Sir Humphrey Davy

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

Hubert Humphrey

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Jimmy Carter

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Ronald Reagan