Dear Fatherland

Famous quotes containing the words dear and/or fatherland:

    O Time and Change!—with hair as gray
    As was my sire’s that winter day,
    How strange it seems, with so much gone
    Of life and love, to still live on!
    Ah, brother! only I and thou
    Are left of all that circle now,—
    The dear home faces whereupon
    That fitful firelight paled and shone.
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
    Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)