Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.

Nations like individuals do not always see alike or think alike, and international cooperation and progress are not helped by any nation assuming that it has a monopoly of wisdom or of virtue.

Let us mingle with other nations as one of them and not stand as one apart. Let us seek their friendship not their hate.

The Arab population does not want to turn inward and be isolated.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

For most U. S. citizens, the rest of the world has scant importance. Though the lack of interest in the rest of the world is a long-standing American trait, the feeling of complete national security is relatively new.

Are we going to permit uncontrolled nationalism to dominate civilized Europe…?

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

The role of the Communist Party today lies in the necessity for keeping a sharp lookout to see that national chauvinism does not appear and develop among any of the nationalities. The Communist Party must always endeavor, and does endeavor, to ensure that all the negative phenomena of nationalism disappear and that people are educated in the spirit of internationalism.

We are such a large country that it is sometimes hard for us to realize that we are one nation, and that the interests of one part of the country, though they may be at variance with other parts, must react on each other and are therefore of interest to all men and women everywhere in the United States.

Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.