Alan Wolfe Quotes

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

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

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

We prefer the well-being of our country over the well-being of an individual or group.

The country is the people.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

Let us all work for the nation that is yet to be but which yet must be.

Our nation has a message. That is why it can never be an average nation. Throughout history our nation has either soared to the heights or fallen into the abyss through the envy, conspiracy and enmity of others.

Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the idea to which it gives birth ... the sense of communion which united in one all the sons of that territory.

In a highly diverse and fragmented society like Iraq, the military...is one of the few national institutions that stresses national unity as an important principle. Tot ear apart the army in the war’s aftermath could lead to the destruction of one of the only forces for unity within the society.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

Our belief in ourselves as a nation will perish.

For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was established, we are one people, with one common country, we are all citizens of the United States.

This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure.

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

I'm going to put the interests of the nation first.

We are very clear that we will go to any lengths for the sake of protecting our national pride.

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.