Marquis de Custine Quotes

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

It is high time that we awaken from the romantic self-renunciation which made us admire all sorts of other nationalities while we ourselves languished in shameful bondage, trampled on by all the world; it is high time that we awaken to a healthy national egoism which, to put it frankly, places the welfare and honour of the fatherland above everything else.

For my part, I do not believe that the country is in danger. I think England is safe in the race of men who inhabit her; that she is safe in something much more precious than her accumulated capital — her accumulated experience; she is safe in her national character, in her fame, in the traditions of a thousand years, and in that glorious future which I believe awaits her.

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.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

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

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

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

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

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.

Above all, I had to fight for the image of the Kingdom, which meant standing up to the Americans to save our country from appearing an American dependency.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

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