Christian Lous Lange Quotes

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

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

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

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""

When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.

What, then, unites nations? Interest and sentiment.

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

Building a state and fostering a national identity take time and good leadership—bold ideas, initiative, and the willingness to compromise.

A nationalist movement seeks its own country. A nationalist party seeks a country that will keep electing it.

Until 1847 Switzerland remained a pure Confederation of States, that is to say, she took five and a half centuries to make the step which the United States achieved at once.

Fascism is essentially a typically Italian movement. Such it remains whether we consider it as a political party or as a phase of our national revolution--and even more so in the latter case; for Fascism, though in the guise of a political party, is a capital factor in the formation of the modern Italian state.

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'

Nexit is the best thing that can happen to us.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.

The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of such continental leaders.

I'm proud to say that we are the party of Canada's first prime minister, the father of our federation, and the visionary who made this land possible.

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

It was [the concept of] nationalism that Indonesia was established on. Not the Javanese, not the Sumatran, not the Bornean, Sulawesi, Bali or others, but the Indonesian, that together became the foundation of one nationale staat (nation-state).

We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.