"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."

Nationalism, First, Law

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"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements."

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"However British you may be, I am more British still."

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

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"The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever."

Muammar al Gaddafi, Libyan Leader

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"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"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."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails."

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"Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries."

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"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."

Barack Obama, American President

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"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?"

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"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."

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"We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow."

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"The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself."

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"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."

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"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."

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"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."

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"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."

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"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home."

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"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home."

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