Quotes of Nationalism - somelinesforyou

“ Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. ”

- Stephen Decatur

“ I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ”

- Edith Cavell

“ Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. ”

- Cicero

“ Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice. ”

- Governor Jesse Ventura

“ Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world. ”

- Richard Aldington

“ All the nationalists are wasms — except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. ”

- John Lukacs

“ Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ”

- George Orwell

“ Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. ”

- Muammar Gaddafi

“ Iraq is an unjust war. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice.. stated in articles written for NY Times.. printed in USA Today). ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ”

- George William Curtis

“ You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. ”

- Malcolm X

“ Colonialism is an amazing thing! ”

- Unknown

“ We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union. ”

- Rufus Choate

“ I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them! ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ”

- Adlai Stevenson
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