Franklin Knight Lane Quotes

The American Motion Picture Industry will do all within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

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 Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad,..

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

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

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

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

Canadian, adj. and n. An anti-American American.

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

Nationalism usually conquers in the name of a putative folk culture.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

I shall yet live to see it an English nation.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed — selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful — we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic — and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals?

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.