Fatherland Quotes - Page 2

• The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Power, Uganda, Europe

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• 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

  Men, Blessing, Poverty

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

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Hero, Fighting

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.54, Dawson Bros.

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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Acceptance, People

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

  George W. Bush

  Country, Tasks, Patriot

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• 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

  Country, Men, Greatness

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

  Democritus

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• 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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Men, People

  "Précis des guerres de César, écrit à Sainte-Hélène sous la dictée de l'empereur" edited by Comte Marchand, (p. 237), 1836.

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• 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

  Hands, Giving, Gains

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• 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

  Thinking, Priorities, Pay

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• 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

  Mother, Mean, Able

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• ... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.

  Erich Raeder

  Loyalty, Military, Character

  Erich Raeder (1960). “My Life”

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• At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Usa, Order

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Men, Self

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Ill Will, Criticism

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1708, ShandonPress

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Mind, Landscape

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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• 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.

  Ian Kershaw

  Men, Damn You, Historical

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• Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

  Hans Schemm

  Religion, Atheism, Christ

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Future, Sea

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

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

  Wilfred Owen

  Sweet, Fitting, Dies

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

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Politician, Outstanding, Serving

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Proud, Croatians

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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