The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.
I am the Haitian flag. He who is my enemy is the enemy of the fatherland.
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.
If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
Germany is our fatherland; Europe is our future.
The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.
