Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.

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

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.

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

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

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

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.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

I always feel as though I'm not quite Canadian enough for everybody.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

We've got to be Americans first. We've got to pull together and unite.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.