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My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland. -- Wilhelm Frick
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. -- Pietro Aretino
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. -- Fritz Todt
I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. -- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. -- Emile M. Cioran
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work. -- Gustav Heinemann
If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
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. -- Walter Ulbricht
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. -- Friedrich List
[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. -- Howard Zinn
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. -- Christian Lous Lange
Fatherland before everything, art afterward. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland! -- Hans Schemm
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland. -- Sitting Bull
Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning. -- Anders Chydenius
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 FÃ¼hrer and Fatherland unto the end. -- Friedrich Paulus
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. -- Harry Browne
...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. -- Adolf Hitler
We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost attention to our common moral values and consolidate Russian society on this basis. I think that this is an absolute priority. -- Vladimir Putin
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. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud. -- Helen Keller
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. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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. -- Hjalmar Branting
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. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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. -- Adolf Hitler
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. -- Adolf Hitler
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. -- Tycho Brahe
[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. -- Theodore Parker
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. -- Nicolas Maduro
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. -- Voltaire
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. -- Horace
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. -- Tycho Brahe
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? -- Adolf Hitler
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? -- Jose Rizal
Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My fatherland has always the first claim on me. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland. -- Wilfred Owen
I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland. -- Nikola Tesla
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland. -- Democritus
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime... -- Emile M. Cioran
Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland. -- Alexander Lukashenko
The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers. -- Joseph Goebbels
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. -- Witold Gombrowicz
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe. -- Democritus
I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people. -- Vladimir Putin
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable? -- Denis Diderot
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland. -- Adolf Hitler
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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! -- Jose Rizal
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 -- Bedrich Smetana
[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. -- Theodore Parker
No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for. -- Christina Stead

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