Ancestry Quote by William Ralph Inge

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.”

— William Ralph Inge

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

— Karl Deutsch

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

— Olaf Stapledon

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in…

— Frank Underhill

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

— Ernest Renan

A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and…

— A. C. Cuza

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

— J. G. Holland

A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite…

— John W. Gardner

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're…

— Michelle Obama

A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who…

— Anonymous