Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan Quotes

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

The feeling of patriotism --- It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God ... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

To maintain this Separation (from England) is to maintain the Religion, Liberty and Property of ourselves and our Posterity; to renounce it is to Sink into the lowest meanness and Slavery. May God remove every such thought from every American Breast! Welcome first the Life of the most uncivilized Savages! Welcome Death itself and everlasting Oblivion to our race!

Nationalism springs, as often as not, from a wounded or outraged sense of human dignity, the desire for recognition.

Show me a man who respects the rights of all countries, but is ready to defend his own against them all, and I will show you a man who is both a nationalist and an internationalist.

For citizens to always be ready to defend and to maintain American ideals of public justice and liberty would add to the self respect of the people. It will teach the people to think of their government as a unified and exalted power for good in the world—humane, unselfish, and aspiring.

Patriotism is the trump card of a scoundrel.

The spirit of nationalism springs from the deepest of human emotions. It rises from the yearning of men to be free of foreign domination, to govern themselves. It springs from a thousand rills of race, of history, of sacrifice and pride in national achievement.

The cheapest form of pride however is national pride. For it reveals in the one thus afflicted the lack of individual qualities of which he could be proud, while he would not otherwise reach for what he shares with so many millions. He who possesses significant personal merits will rather recognize the defects of his own nation, as he has them constantly before his eyes, most clearly. But that poor blighter who has nothing in the world of which he can be proud, latches onto the last means of being proud, the nation to which he belongs to. Thus he recovers and is now in gratitude ready to defend with hands and feet all errors and follies which are its own.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Citizenship should be placed above everything else, even learning.

Jolt a country’s pride and even the reformers will support the nation

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

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

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""

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

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

I'm not afraid to make a patriotic speech. There should be more of them.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.