"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."

"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."

"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

"Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?"

"Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery."

"Whatever advice you give, be brief."

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"

"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity."