Charles de Gaulle Quotes

The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.

We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol, and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.

Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.

I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America...I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America.

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.