Gustav Heinemann Quotes

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

I think when I say my county, it is always India.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

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

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

A writer without his country is nothing.

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…