Thomas Jefferson Quotes

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

We have done nothing yet—I regret to see no national feeling in the majority of Congress—everyone appears to be engrossed with the interest alone of his own section of the country—so long as this feeling predominates, it will be unfortunate for our nation.

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

Our belief in ourselves as a nation will perish.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

Patriotism, love of country, and pride in the flag which symbolizes country may be feelings which the race will at some period outgrow, but at present they are very real and strong, and the man who lacks them is a useless creature, a mere encumbrance to the land.

Jolt a country’s pride and even the reformers will support the nation

Every nation has a home. The sentiment of nationality cannot gather simply round an idea or a memory or a program or about some function or status, such as a priesthood or an aristocracy or a Legion of Janissaries.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

We've got to be Americans first. We've got to pull together and unite.

You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.

It's such an honor to represent my country.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.