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:
“We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed beforea national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“A holiday is when you celebrate something thats all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now theres nothing left to celebrate but the dead.”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)
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