fatherland
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There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
"We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023
A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
"For me personally, it's about maintaining the connection with the motherland, the fatherland - whatever you call it," she says.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
Amongst the tales they related to me were those of wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the fatherland.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Exiles shall ye be from all fatherlands and forefather-lands!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He did not hate men, but predatory institutions, false fatherlands, and all slave-drivers.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
The outcome was a collection of crude republics, racked by internal dissension and torn by mutual jealousy—patrias bobas, or "foolish fatherlands," as one of their own writers has termed them.
From Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd
Thus you will disarm the "fatherlands" and "motherlands," and you will reduce the notion of Motherland to the little bit of social importance that it must have.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
I think that every man has two fatherlands: one his own, the nearer, and the other Italy.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
