John W. Davis Quotes

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

I no longer know of political party, I only know Germans

I don't think you can lead a nation if you don't have a definition of the nation. We have to define, as Democrats, what a nation is and embrace the entire nation.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

To engage all sides of Parliament in a common national cause is not unpatriotic.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

When we put country first, it's amazing that we're going to be able to bring people together instead of dividing America.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

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

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

No one can undermine national unity.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

[A party is] ... a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed.

I was not elected to serve one party but to serve one nation.