National Holiday

National holiday may refer to:

  • A National Day, in which a country celebrates its independence, establishment or an otherwise significant event.
  • A public holiday, which can be celebrated across a nation. That means that some nations can have more than one National Day.

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or holiday:

    “The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)