Nation and Patriotism

Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history, and it will be, to the north and to the south of the Sahara, a history of glory and dignity.

What America needs most today is what it once had, but has lost: the lift of a driving dream.

After a third of a century of power flowing from the people and the States to Washington it is time for a New Federalism in which power, funds, and responsibility will flow from Washington to the States and to the people.

In my lifetime all the problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions havecome from the English-speaking nations across the world.

The sun does not set in my dominions.

 

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home.

Not so Leonidas and Washington, Whose every battlefield is holy ground, Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone.

I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor.

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.

The Cincinnatus of the West.

The land was ours before we were the land’s.

We pause to … recall what our country has done for each of us and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead king!

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and heartstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

‘Shoot, if you must, this old grey head,

The word “Jewish” has two meanings: It has to do with (1) nationality and descent; (2) religion. I am a Jew in the first sense but not in the second.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

A colonial Imperialist is one who raises colonial troops, equips a colonial squadron, claims a Federal Parliament sending its measures to the Throne instead of to the Colonial Office, and, being finally brought by this means into insoluble conflict with the insular British Imperialist, "cuts the painter" and breaks up the Empire.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.