Word: fatherland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wonders concerning the sage's self-appointed attorney. What does he share with the long dead guilty one in addition to the same fatherland? Does the same spirit animate him that kindled the oratorical fires of the king of Sophists? If so he is a unique species. Centuries have brought changes to all countries but none so striking as those to Greece. Occasionally one runs across a person possessed of the true Grecian spirit. The proposition of Socrates modern defender would appear to indicate that he is not among that sacred...
...propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...
...same time I appeal to the Reichstag factions concerned to lay aside their personal doubts and differences in the interest of the Fatherland, to unite in collaboration under your leadership and to rally behind the Government which is resolved to work, not for or against individual parties, but faithful to the Constitution for the good of the Fatherland...
...relegated to the use of the British. But the salvation of American drama was not due to efforts on the part of foreigners. Therefore one may be pardoned for publicly sympathizing with the English in their plight and privately snickering at the American rape of the tongue of the fatherland...
Since a Cabinet Minister had uttered publicly an untruth someone had to resign. General von Seeckt called upon President von Hindenburg, handed in his resignation. Said Paul von Hindenburg to Hans von Seeckt: "I thank you for your extraordinary services to the Fatherland in war and peace...