Eddie Izzard Quotes

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

I despise any flag, not just the American flag. It's a symbol of a piece of land that's considered more important than the human lives on it.

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

They shall forever be a part of the United States.

I have loved but one flag and cannot share that affection with the mongrel banner designed for the League [of Nations.]

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Where new states have come into being, they have invariably swaddled themselves in sacred symbols and shibboleths forged in more dedicated struggles, beginning with an often random tricolor and a national anthem.

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.

We've got have a country.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

We want a country. and we will get it, our country.