Sun Yat-sen Quotes

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.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Our belief in ourselves as a nation will perish.

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.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

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.

Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.

If you want your country to do well as everyone says, bring a positive light to it.

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

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

My question about everything I do is, does it make our country stronger?

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

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

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

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

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.