Quotes about Nationalism
Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I've never been able to answer that question.
- Tobias Lutke
Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate.
- Eric Metaxas
Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.
- Karl Barth
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
- Aldous Huxley
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- George Washington
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
- Grover Cleveland
I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
- Andrew Carnegie
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
- Mark Twain
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
- Michael Ignatieff
An informed patriotism is what we want.
- Ronald Reagan
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
- Graham Greene
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
- Mark Twain