Nationalism quotes

Question 1

Rousseau quotes

Answer 1

• ‘a country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue’
  
  • ‘the English think they are free. They are free only during the elections of Members of Parliament’

Question 2

Mazzini quotes

Answer 2

’ a country is not a mere territory… it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory

Question 3

Herder quotes

Answer 3

• ‘has a people anything dearer than the speech of its fathers? In its speech resides it whole through domain, its tradition, history and the basis of life, all its heart and soul’
  
  • countries are ‘wonderfully seperated nationalities not only by woods and mountains, seas and deserts, reviers and climates, but more paticularly by languages, inclinations and characters

Question 4

Maurras quotes

Answer 4

• ‘the foreigner is the founder of the fourth republic, as he was of the third, the second, the first in order to serve foreign interests’
  
  • ‘the greatest evil comes not from communism or socialism… democracy upsets, menaces, torments and paralyses management… excites and agitates the proletariat’
    ‘for the monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely?’

Question 5

Garvey quotes

Answer 5

• ‘Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad’
  ‘the black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness’