American Nationalism Quotes

#1. We don't usually talk about American nationalism, but it is a mark of how deep it runs that we apply the word "nationalism" to Serbs, Russians, and others, while believing ourselves to possess a uniquely superior version called

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

Feist

#3. Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Vaclav Havel

#4. My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.

Nicole Ari Parker

#5. Love is respect,
recognition and honour
given without expectation.

Theodore Volgoff

#6. The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

Lloyd Kaufman

#8. Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll

#9. I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

Cher

#10. Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Jacob M. Appel

#11. Suddenly Adam (Upton) hated death just as much as he hated life, and now he had absolutely no idea how to unsolve that equation.

-- From my upcoming novel "Streaks of Blue: How the Angels of Newtown Inspired One Girl to Save Her School.

Jack Chaucer

#12. But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults are impardonable, and merit the sharpest arrows of criticism.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#13. Don't you ever just think of yourself as American?

Sabrina Vourvoulias

#14. Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

Joseph J. Ellis

#15. We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.

Ferran Adria

#16. So this is love:
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings.

Milan Rufus

#17. When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#18. The last time I went to a festival without a hat, two things happened. One: I got sunstroke. Secondly, I had to buy what can only be described as a Jamiroquai hat, which was sartorially incorrect - I'm saying that as a Jamiroquai fan. That was a disaster. I looked like a small clown.

Jamie Cullum