# Quotes about homeland - Quotes: 9 - Authors: 7 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland ## Quotes > There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Reflections on the Revolution in France Topics: [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > A man approaches, wearing sandals and simple raiment, a raw tomato held firmly in his right hand, and says, "The affections of family and country alike are hindrances to the fuller development of human love;" but the plain thinker will only answer him, with a wonder not untinged with admiration, "What a great deal of trouble you must have taken in order to feel like that." [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/a-man-approaches.md) Topics: [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md), [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md) > To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [Pebble in the Sky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/pebble-in-the-sky.md) · p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/pebble-in-the-sky/to-the-rest.md) Topics: [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > He had obtained a clearer view of his homeland by leaving it and seeing it through the eyes of others. [James A. Michener](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener.md) · [Poland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/poland.md) · p. 571 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/poland/he-had-obtained.md) Topics: [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild. [James A. Michener](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener.md) · [Poland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/poland.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/poland/a-pole-is-a-man.md) Topics: [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md), [perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance.md) > No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before. [James A. Michener](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener.md) · [Poland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/poland.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/poland/no-invader-has.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it. I was from Connecticut, whose Constitution declares "that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit; and that they have at all times an undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient." > > Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does. > > And now here I was, in a country where a right to say how the country should be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand of its population. For the nine hundred and ninety-four to express dissatisfaction with the regnant system and propose to change it, would have made the whole six shudder as one man, it would have been so disloyal, so dishonorable, such putrid black treason. So to speak, I was become a stockholder in a corporation where nine hundred and ninety-four of the members furnished all the money and did all the work, and the other six elected themselves a permanent board of direction and took all the dividends. It seemed to me that what the nine hundred and ninety-four dupes needed was a new deal. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court/my-kind-of-loyalty.md) Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [John Bull's Other Island](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/john-bulls-other-island.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/john-bulls-other-island/a-healthy-nation.md) Topics: [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md) > Animal Farm, Animal Farm, > > Never through me shalt thou come to harm! [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Animal Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/animal-farm-animal.md) Topics: [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md)