Nationhood Quotes

“For the first time, we have a nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.”

“We are a nation that has returned to its homeland. We have no other country.”

“We are what we are. We are Quebecers. We are a people. We are a nation.”

“The real question is not whether we are able to be a country. The real question is whether we are still a people.”

“Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education.”

“It is the spiritual unity of purpose and ideals which sanctifies a nation.”

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”

“There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.”

“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved...”

“We are a working nation.”

“I did not become president to preside over the death of the Philippine Republic.”

“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation.”

“A nation is a state of mind, a spiritual principle.”

“Our country is a work in progress.”

“If a country is not worth defending, it is not worth building.”

“The Jewish question is a national question, which can only be solved by making it a political world-question.”

“A country, like an individual, has dignity and pride.”

“Human rights are the soul of our foreign policy, because they are the soul of our sense of nationhood.”

“A people that has been robbed of its land, its state, its language, that has been torn from all natural connections, cannot have a normal spiritual life.”

“The country will not be a country without a mythology.”