Ho Chi Minh Quotes

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist.

Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

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

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

I wish to be no less than national in all the positions I may take.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals—a necessary condition for self improvement.