Douglas Alexander Quotes

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

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.

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

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

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

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

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.

When the culture dies, the country dies.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol, and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

No nation is formed within a night, one generation's era of even two. A nation can be described as the continuous string of many generations that time, this pitiless, thoughtless sword of nature, separates their physical connections along the course of their history.

I'm Scottish, but I also feel British at that same time.

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

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.