Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Perrin had adopted the name Newark for his project, after the family's New Jersey ancestry, and if he went ahead with his town location, the ranchers laughed, the name would prove to be apt. Anybody foolish enough to actually buy the land would need an ark to reach it. Perrin ignored the jokes, ... The Centennial History of Newark.

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours.