It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
“Patriotism taken too far is fanaticism. No matter who you are or where you're from.' 'These filthy foreigners made us look bad.'… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
“In a country where everyone is trying to be noticed, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.” — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“The homeland, the myth of the homeland, becomes a fundamental value for those who have nothing else(...)In a world where power, like… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“you are a war the border between two countries the collateral damage the paradox that joins the two but also splits them… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning,… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“The nationalist, however loves his own kind as the extension of his family, realizing that universal values are primitive values or no… — Willis Carto Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. — Ben Linder Copy Share Image
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
“You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?" "Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored , in which he proceeded to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
