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"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos."
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"The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited."

"What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?"

"Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in '91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me. He shook his head. "This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can't carry his country on the soles of his shoes."

"At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?"

"Let my country die for me."

"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call "Nationalist Fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as "Religious Fundamentalism."

"Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism."

"France cannot be France without greatness."
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"The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department."

"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos."
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