Nationalism Quotes

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Austin O'Malley

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moli

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

George Bernard Shaw

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Voltaire

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

Sully

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Randolph Churchill

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Chou En Lai

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Emma Goldman

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Aldous Huxley

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Pierre Burton

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Lord Burleigh

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S Truman

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Francis Bacon

There's always something fishy about the French.

Noel Coward