National Sentiment Quotes

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.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

I believe the Australian people have an affection for the Queen, and so they should have.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

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

People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.

There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

I think that Americans - and this is not true just now, but over the years - are not fundamentally opposed to war. They're fundamentally opposed to losing wars.

If the Chinese are sensitive about anything, it's not having their people die.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be, detested in France.

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.

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

… once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about the war, what it meant. You also had polls of public opinion, and they're dramatically different.