Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

I distinguish between nationalism and patriotism.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred and always stronger than internationalism.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations they will struggle and snatch from each other and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

A civilized nation can have no enemies and one cannot draw a line across a map a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side and good friends live on the other.