Built Quote by Cal Thomas

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist…

— Janne Teller

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

— Nelson Mandela

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture.…

— Wade Davis

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

— Johan Huizinga

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

— Nelson Mandela

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

— Lee H. Hamilton

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

— Rithy Panh

Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is no awareness…

— Narendra Modi

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their…

— Tom Gjelten

“One has to put aside the popular notion that language and culture are endlessly passed on from generation to generation, rather as if ‘Scottishness’…

— Norman Davies