It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this…

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

— Sitting Bull

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Adolf Hitler

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

— Hans Schemm

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple…

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

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

— Witold Gombrowicz

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

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

— Pietro Aretino

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves…

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer…

— James Joyce

Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“…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…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando