Fatherland quotes

Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
-- Anders Chydenius

#Littles #Merit #Fatherland
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Murderer #Fatherland
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#Havana #Fatherland
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Germany #Difficult #Fatherland
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
-- Pietro Aretino

#Grew #Fatherland #Manhood
My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.
-- Wilhelm Frick

#People #Whole Life #Fatherland
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
-- Witold Gombrowicz

#Virtue #Commit #Fatherland
My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Firsts #Claims #Fatherland
...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
-- Anders Chydenius

#Littles #Merit #Fatherland

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.
I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.
'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.