Edith Stein Quotes

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

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

He who would dare to undertake to establish a nation would have to feel himself capable of altering, so to speak, human nature, to transform each individual, who by his very nature is a unique and perfect whole, into a mere part of a greater whole, from which this individual would in a sense receive his life and his being.

The country is the people.

Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the idea to which it gives birth ... the sense of communion which united in one all the sons of that territory.

We are all Americans, sir.

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.

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

… we need to know ourselves, not only our own little group or our own little part of the country, but the country as a whole and all its people. This will inspire in us an even greater fervor of spirit to see our country attain the ideals we have always cherished.

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.

One of the things that we're missing from our political dialogue right now is the idea that the United States is a home. It is more than an accounting sheet. It is more than the sum of its G.D.P., its total tax collections, or its total outlays. America is a family.

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

Each citizen of India is a nation builder.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.