Jay Rockefeller Quotes

… lustre of our country.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals—a necessary condition for self improvement.

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.

I didn't know what country I represented anymore.

I feel that Britain is a rather self-deprecating nation: you're almost considered egotistical to say you're good at anything.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.

The world calls me conceited. The world is in error. I trace all the blunders of my life to sacrificing my own party to that of others.

In this war I am completely English.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

I wish to be no less than national in all the positions I may take.

Let us abandon this narrow conception of patriotism, which consists of the doctrine, "My country right or wrong." There is a nobler doctrine, ... "My country must always be right.

There can be no such thing as offending national honor. One may offend national pride or injure national interest.

It is the honor and soul of England which is at stake!

Who do you think you are, a country?

Every one thinks highly of his own

Our belief in ourselves as a nation will perish.

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.