19th Century Nationalism "A country is not merely a geographic territory.... A country is the sense of love which unites as one all the sons and daughters of that geographic territory. So long as a single person amongst you has no vote to represent him in the development of the national life; so long as there is one person left to vegetate in ignorance while others are educated; so long as a single person that is able and willing to work languishes in poverty through lack of a job, you have no country in the sense in which a country ought to exist. The right to vote, education, and employment are the three main pillars of a nation. The life of your country will be immortal so long as you are ready to die for your fellow men and women. " From Giuseppe Mazzini: A Memoir by E. A. Venturi. Giuseppe Mazzini, was a leader in the struggle for Italian unification.

Otto von Bismarck

The noble-minded man will be active and effective, and will sacrifice himself for his people.... In order to save his nation he must be ready even to die that it may live, and that he may live in it the only life for which he has ever wished.... In this belief our earliest common forefathers . . . the Germans, as the Romans called them, bravely resisted the oncoming world domination of Romans.... Freedom to them meant just this: remaining Germans and continuing to settle their own affairs independently and in accordance with the original spirit of their race.... They assumed as a matter of course that every man would rather die than become half Roman, and that a true German could only want to live in order to be, and to remain, just a German.... It is they whom we must thank&emdash;we the immediate heirs of their soil, their language, and their way of thinking.... The present problem, the first task . . . is simply to preserve the existence and continuance of what is German. All other differences would vanish. " From Addresses to the German Nation by J. G. Fichte. Johann Fichte, was a Prussian patriot during Napoleon's occupation of Berlin.

Emperor Louis Napoleon III

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19TH CENTURY NATIONALISM

Nationalism and Making Nations

Nationalism in Italy

Bismarck and Unification

Nationalism in Germany