Fatherland Quotes - Page 3

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

Adolf Hitler

Honesty, Sacrifice, Order

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Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.

Susan Brownmiller

Country, War, Fighting

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If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.

Kliment Voroshilov

Strong, Regret, Thinking

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Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Art

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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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Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Inspiration, Night

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

Witold Gombrowicz

Virtue, Commit, Mystique

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...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

Children, War, Race

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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Democritus

Wise, Men, Good Man

"History of Philosophy" by F. Uberweg, New York, vol. 1, (p. 71), 1871.

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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.

Heather Nova

Travel, Rain, Smell

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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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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 Führer and Fatherland unto the end.

Friedrich Paulus

Army, Men, Lasts

"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William Lawrence Shirer, (p. 931), 1990.

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