Fatherland Quotes - Page 3

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

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Politician, Outstanding, Serving

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• Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mother, Dream, Struggle

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• What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great fatherland, a dream that existed even before the Spanish conquest, and Simon Bolivar fought for it later on.

  Evo Morales

  Dream, America, Bolivia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.

  Wilfred Owen

  Sweet, Fitting, Dies

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• Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Art

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• 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.

  Wilhelm II

  Powerful, Citizens, World

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• To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

  Ernest Renan

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

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• 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.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Names, Patriotism, France

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• 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

  Giving, Done, Deeds

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Islam, Christianity

  "Inside the Third Reich". Book by Albert Speer, p. 115, 1969.

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• 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

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

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• The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Europe, United States

  Ley D. Trotsky, Leon Trotsky (1973). “The Bolsheviki and world peace”, Hyperion Pr

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• When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Simple, Men, Ak 47

  "Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Roddy, www.reuters.com. October 26, 2009.

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• 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

  Grace, Youth, Serene

  Jose Rizal, “To The Philippine Youth”

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• 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

  Memories, Joy, Heaven

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Differences, Different

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Son, Men, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• 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.

  Vladimir Lenin

  World, Socialism, States

  Address to the Party Central Committee on May 14, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 27, pp. 365-381,

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• For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

  Benito Mussolini

  Two, World, Rags

  "Mussolini in the Making". Book by Gaudens Megaro, 1938.

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• Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Responsibility, Goal, Political

  "Pinochet Takes 'Political Responsibility' for Actions of Chilean Dictatorship". Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. November 26, 2006.

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• I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Son, Two, People

  Last words, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, 2002.

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• 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

  Divorce, Men, Wife

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

  Joseph Goebbels

  Brother, One Day, Equal

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i.e. the land of the origin of his religion... Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.

  Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

  Sea, Land, Tribes

  "Hindu Rashtra Darshan". Book by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, 1949.

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

  Vladimir Putin

  People, Obligation, Whole Life

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