In England, however, neither the term fatherland nor the term motherland is in common use. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul] Reference
Hitler used the term fatherland to drum up support, nationalistic support, for his growing war machine. From Wordnik.com. [A Young Marine Speaks Out] Reference
When the fatherland belonged to a few of the privileged ones, the word fatherland had no meaning. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEAKS ON EDUCATION AND PARASITES] Reference
As for the phrase fatherland or freedom, this is knowing how to say fatherland or freedom when one has to say fatherland or freedom. From Wordnik.com. [13TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CDR] Reference
The fatherland is the constitution, to which we give life. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotism] Reference
For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
Our fatherland is the first socialist country of this hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [PIONEERS AT OPENING OF CAMP] Reference
All will dwell in one common fatherland, which is the planet itself. From Wordnik.com. [Some Answered Questions] Reference
Our fatherland was the last and fought its battle alone in the heroic. From Wordnik.com. [5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PLAYA GIRON VICTORY] Reference
I am speaking as a son of the fatherland, that is, not as the Son of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Crocodile] Reference
Our fatherland was the last to free itself of the colonial yoke of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PLAYA GIRON VICTORY] Reference
"I bring you great words from our common fatherland, which is Wisdom," said Beroes. From Wordnik.com. [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference
The fatherland is our common home, and this home we build, keep in good order, and defend. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield] Reference
The allotment no longer lies in the so-called fatherland, but in the register of mortgages. From Wordnik.com. [Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte] Reference
In forming this force, the principle that the defense of the fatherland is a right and duty of all. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO MARKS TERRITORIAL MILITIA UNITS' FORMATIO] Reference
"Why do you call my fatherland unhappy, and why do you say that the Brandenburgers are to be pitied?. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of the Great Elector] Reference
In times past, your fatherland was a small plot of land, a small settlement near the sugar mill, then the school, and then the country. From Wordnik.com. [Cuba: Castro Speaks at Pioneers' Palace Reopening] Reference
"The very word 'fatherland' does not exist in the American vocabulary.". From Wordnik.com. [Paris: Moses and Polytheism] Reference
The word "fatherland" has great meaning, even under the Leninist concept. From Wordnik.com. [RALLY IN VALPARAISO] Reference
Let each boy and girl make a list of the holidays which his forefathers had in the "fatherland" or "mother country.". From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
All its people usually speak the same language and have for their "fatherland" the warmest feelings of patriotic devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
They may dislike or even hate its leaders, but the emotional connection to the "fatherland" or "motherland" is still there. From Wordnik.com. [Irreconcilable Differences] Reference
Shall the Afro-American return to his "fatherland"? is. From Wordnik.com. [Africa and African Methodism.] Reference
“The fatherland is the ˜republic,™ which we create for ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotism] Reference
All will dwell in one common fatherland, which is the planet itself.”. From Wordnik.com. [The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh] Reference
Their hatred of Czarism was not engulfed by any maudlin sentiment; they knew that they had no "fatherland" to defend. From Wordnik.com. [Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy] Reference
With a look of perfect natural sweetness she said, "To live alone and far from kin and fatherland, that is not amusing. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
He wants to bring back the real meaning of patriotism to Canadians: the word derives from the Latin patria or "fatherland". From Wordnik.com. [Blogging Change] Reference
The patrol was nearing the building, when an athletic, powerful slave, who had been but a short time from his "fatherland,". From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman--,] Reference
"fatherland," and show her where he had dreamt about her among his books. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2] Reference
Christians of your fatherland overwhelmed by the Moslems. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
And again, Zilah would remember the heroic fatherland struck down at. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But his fatherland was not adapted to the prosecution of the project. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
What fatherland can the international banker and the rag-picker have in common?. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
He came from the fatherland; and his great specialty was to play on the trombone. From Wordnik.com. [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference
On account of his old age he could take no part in the rising of his fatherland in. From Wordnik.com. [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference
American Swedish churches and the ecclesiastical see in the fatherland ceased for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
He retired calling me Monsieur le Comte; and all for two sous -- O fatherland of Brutus!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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