Roman Dmowski Quotes

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

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

Patriotism, love of country, and pride in the flag which symbolizes country may be feelings which the race will at some period outgrow, but at present they are very real and strong, and the man who lacks them is a useless creature, a mere encumbrance to the land.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

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 strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

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

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

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

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

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

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

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.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.