Emma Goldman Quotes

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

Beyond independence, Americans had no consensus on what being an American meant.

I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.

Though I adored Delhi, Mumbai was in my veins and I felt connected to this city and had to come back.

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

I remain attached to my nation.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself while looking out for your country.

No encouragement must be given to social and political organizations or methods which perpetuate in this country foreign ideas and customs. An Irish-American, a German-American, or a French-American vote is an intolerable anomaly.

It is a complex fate being an American.

I am no longer a Virginian. I am an American.

Who is not patriotic cannot be considered Portuguese.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.

Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.