It is singular that the Japanese, who rarely commit a solecism in taste in their national costume, architecture, or decorative art, seem to be perfectly destitute of perception when they borrow ours.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop
  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan:  An  Account of  Travels on Horseback in the Interior1880 (published1885).

   We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted† It is about time that we pulled our fingers out† The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

-Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of
  Speech to British industrialists, London,17 Oct.

   Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Speech, Berlin, 9  Apr.

The most striking of all the impressions that I have formed since I left London a month ago is of the strength of African national consciousness. In different places it may take different forms, but it is happening everywhere. The wind of change is blowing through this continent.Whether we like it or not, the growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

-Stockton
  Speech to the South  African Parliament, 3 Feb.

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

-Pigou, Arthur Cecil
  Economics ofWelfare.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing, and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

-J(ulian)
1066 and AllThat.

'I think this calls for a drink' has long been one of our national slogans.

-Thurber,James Grover
  Alarms and Diversions,'Merry Christmas'.

For sheer courage and endurance, physical and mental, the two men stand together as examples of what toughness the body will find, if the spirit within it is tough; and as very worthy representatives of our national capacity for individual enterprise, which it is hoped even themodern craze for regulating everydetail of our lives will never stifle.

-Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1st Earl
  Of F Spencer Chapman andT E Lawrence. Quoted in foreword to F Spencer Chapman TheJungle is Neutral (1950).

[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.

-Webster, Daniel
  Speech, NewYork,10

A life passed among pictures makes not a painteröelse the policeman in the National Gallery might assert himself.

-Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill
  The GentleArt of Making Enemies.

   People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

-William III also called  William of Orange
  Letter, Jan.