Popular Quotes

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

- James Joyce

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

- Aldous Huxley

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

- Adlai Stevenson

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

- Clarence Darrow

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

- Ernest Renan

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

- Mark Twain

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

- Old saying

God made the ocean, but the Dutch made Holland.

- Dutch proverb

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

- Mark Twain

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

- Rolf Hochhuth

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

- Henri Bourassa

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

- Marianne Moore

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

- Andre Malraux

My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce, who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.

- Karl Beveridge

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

- Frank Underhill

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

- William Faulkner

Ireland is a fatal disease; fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

- George Moore