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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.

patriotism, nationalism

Frank Underhill

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.

patriotism, nationalism

William Faulkner

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

patriotism, nationalism

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

patriotism, nationalism

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.

patriotism, nationalism

I’m troubled. I’m dissatisfied. I’m Irish.

patriotism, nationalism

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

patriotism, nationalism

José Ortega y Gasset

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

patriotism, nationalism

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.

patriotism, nationalism

Adlai Stevenson

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

patriotism, nationalism

Clarence Darrow

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

patriotism, nationalism

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

patriotism, nationalism