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Nationalism

noun

Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it. Synonym: patriotism. "British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high"

The doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other.

The aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination.

The doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals.

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"Nationalism" Quotes from Famous Books

... believed, as Fox himself came at last to believe, that Napoleon in his latest years was really an enemy to freedom, in the sense that he was an enemy to that very special and occidental form of freedom which we call Nationalism. The resistance of the Spaniards, for instance, was certainly a popular resistance. It had that peculiar, belated, almost secretive strength with which war is made by the people. It was quite easy for a conqueror to get into Spain; his great difficulty was to get ...

— The Crimes of England • G.K. Chesterton

... various people I had been meeting in the previous few weeks. "So many of us," I said, "seem to be drifting away from the ideas of nationalism and faction and policy, towards something else which is larger. It is an idea of a right way of doing things for human purposes, independently of these limited and localised references. Take such things as international hygiene ...

— War and the Future • H. G. Wells

... part and parcel of this generalization. Generation by generation and century by century it has professed and proclaimed the advantages of universality while it yielded to the persistent demands of nationalism, regionalism and localism. Throughout the latter years of the nineteenth century the will to unify gained much ground. The tide turned with the turn of the century. For the first half of the present century the forces ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... opponents saw in him a rude and ignorant demagog. But the anti-Jackson people accepted the new President as they had accepted Monroe and Adams. In the choice of Buchanan, the Republicans saw an assertion of the nationalism of slavery, and a menace of the subjugation of Kansas. But the supporters of Fremont recognized Buchanan as unhesitatingly as if he had been their own choice. What was the meaning of popular government, ...

— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam

... newer patriotism. The summons "peace on earth and good will to men"—that is the future bugle call. And for us the task is clear. To take our destiny into our own hands, to throw off the prejudices of nationalism, to turn our faces resolutely to the future and strive for that summit of ...

— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association

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