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National Pride Quotes by Famous Authors
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“In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our times: ‘The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed our century, stands more than any other man as the incarnation of a whole race,’ because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it was ’an honour to have been expressed by so great a Master.”
Ivan Turgenev
2.
“What would this country be without this great land of ours.”
Ronald Reagan
3.
“The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.”
Ronald Reagan
4.
“Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.”
Ronald Reagan
5.
“To stand well in the estimation of one’s country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.”
George Washington
6.
“Our country’s honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.”
George Washington
7.
“One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
George Washington
8.
“To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
George Washington
9.
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
Calvin Coolidge
10.
“The last great Englishman is low.”
Alfred Tennyson
11.
“Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12.
“We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.”
Donald Trump
13.
“I don’t want our country to be taken away from us, and that’s what’s happening. The policies that we’ve suffered under other presidents have been a disaster for our country. We want to make America great again.”
Donald Trump
14.
“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.”
Noam Chomsky
15.
“Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?”
Alexander Pope
16.
“What bosom beast not in his country's cause?”
Alexander Pope
17.
“Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.”
Ray Bradbury
18.
“Though, by a just turn-about of things here below, Great Britain has become a colony of the United States, the English are not yet reconciled to the situation.”
Jules Verne
19.
“Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!”
Jules Verne
20.
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”
James Madison
21.
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
Edmund Burke
22.
“As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
23.
“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?”
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
24.
“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them – this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
25.
“The cheapest kind of pride, on the other hand, is national pride. For it betrays in those affected by it the lack of individual qualities of which they could be proud, since they would otherwise not grasp at something that they share with so many millions. Rather those who possess significant personal qualities will recognize most clearly the faults of their own nation, since they constantly have them in front of them.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
27.
“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
28.
“God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.”
W.H. Auden
29.
“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.”
T.E. Lawrence
30.
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
John Milton
31.
“Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.”
Orson Scott Card
32.
“I think patriotism is like charity – it begins at home.”
Henry James
33.
“I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.”
Robin Sharma
34.
“Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.”
Dale Carnegie
35.
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
36.
“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
37.
“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
John F. Kennedy
38.
“We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”
John F. Kennedy
39.
“The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.”
John F. Kennedy
40.
“We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.”
John F. Kennedy
41.
“I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”
John F. Kennedy
42.
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
John F. Kennedy
43.
“Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.”
Walt Disney
44.
“To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'”
Muhammad Ali
45.
“Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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