Fatherland Quotes

“Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future. ”

“Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future. ”

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

“The soul knows full well (even though it pretends to forget many times) that it must render account to the paternal soil. I do not say "fatherland", I say "paternal soil". The paternal soil is something deeper, more modest, more reserved, and is composed of age-old pulverized bones.”

“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.”

“From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to do battle and win over all the enemies of our Fatherland, his battle and victory having to extend even beyond the material world into the realm of invisible enemies, the powers of evil. Everything that our mind can imagine as more beautiful spiritually; everything the proudest that our race can produce, greater, more just, more powerful, wiser, purer, more diligent and more heroic, this is what the Legionary school must give us! A man in whom all the possibilities of human grandeur that are implanted by God in the blood of our people be developed to the maximum. This hero, the product of Legionary education, will also know how to elaborate programs; will also know how to solve the Jewish problem; will also know how to organize the state well; will also know how to convince other Romanians; and if not, he will know how to win, for that is why he is a hero. This hero, this Legionary of bravery, labour, and justice, with the powers God implanted in his soul, will lead our Fatherland on the road of its glory.”

“Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.”

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

“My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.”

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

“…what else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves―our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?”