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
"We want to serve our fatherland," says Mr Fehintola.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022
He hid his terror in his heart, however, and addressed the stranger: “What country is your fatherland? No hateful and defiling lies, I beg you. Tell me the truth.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Alien to me, and a mockery, are the present-day men, to whom of late my heart impelled me; and exiled am I from fatherlands and motherlands.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
Exiles shall ye be from all fatherlands and forefather-lands!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
