Rick Moranis Quotes

I'm a Canadian. I've always been a Canadian.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.

The spirit of nationalism springs from the deepest of human emotions. It rises from the yearning of men to be free of foreign domination, to govern themselves. It springs from a thousand rills of race, of history, of sacrifice and pride in national achievement.

In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.

A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

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.

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.