Fatherland Quotes

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

I keep going back as if I’m looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant – I mean our modern pessimists – by the Good God himself.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for FГјhrer and Fatherland unto the end.

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Let’s dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police force here in Venezuela, and I will carry it out without delay, without excuses.

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?

Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord’s grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives – and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland.

…the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation’s ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it by the Creator of the universe.

Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.

Hold high the brow serene,
O youth, where now you stand;
Let the bright sheen
Of your grace be seen,
Fair hope of my fatherland!

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

It is not national interests we are upholding – we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one’s fatherland is to wish evil to one’s neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

…Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children’s land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German – and to the shame of the German nation.

I am the Haitian flag. He who is my enemy is the enemy of the fatherland.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: Г©migrГ©s cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

The Fatherland Liberation War, which the Korean people fought against the haughty U.S. imperialists who had battened on aggression and pillage, was, in fact, a hard fight that could be likened to a bare-handed man versus brigandish robbers.

What we have to fight for…is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

My fatherland has always the first claim on me.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

The fatherland shall one day be like this: We’re not all equal, but we’re all brothers.

Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted… to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

Germany is our fatherland; Europe is our future.

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.