Gautam Gambhir Quotes

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

A nation is an organic thing.

It's your flag and my flag.

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

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred.

Patriotism, love of country, and pride in the flag which symbolizes country may be feelings which the race will at some period outgrow, but at present they are very real and strong, and the man who lacks them is a useless creature, a mere encumbrance to the land.

Every nation has a home. The sentiment of nationality cannot gather simply round an idea or a memory or a program or about some function or status, such as a priesthood or an aristocracy or a Legion of Janissaries.

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

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

Our nation has a message. That is why it can never be an average nation. Throughout history our nation has either soared to the heights or fallen into the abyss through the envy, conspiracy and enmity of others.

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.

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