Rajnath Singh Quotes

If someone wants to know which is my homeland, he will not have to look for it. He will have to fight for it.

Freedom is not free. It is more important to protect the sovereignty of this country than to be playing any sport or athletic event.

This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I swear in front of my mother’s grave and in the presence of God, that I shall not hesitate to join her if this be necessary for the defense of the sovereignty which the nation has won at the cost of so much blood. I deem it a debt of conscience and honor to give my life for the sake of national sovereignty.

We prefer the well-being of our country over the well-being of an individual or group.

Let us abandon this narrow conception of patriotism, which consists of the doctrine, "My country right or wrong." There is a nobler doctrine, ... "My country must always be right.

There can be no such thing as offending national honor. One may offend national pride or injure national interest.

The feeling of patriotism --- It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God ... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience

It is high time that we awaken from the romantic self-renunciation which made us admire all sorts of other nationalities while we ourselves languished in shameful bondage, trampled on by all the world; it is high time that we awaken to a healthy national egoism which, to put it frankly, places the welfare and honour of the fatherland above everything else.

Patriotism is the trump card of a scoundrel.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred.

… anti-nationalist British propaganda

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

I'm going to put the interests of the nation first.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

No one has the right to detract the attention of the nation from the defence of the country.