Fatherland

But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way...

Augustine of Hippo

Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future.

Helmut Kohl

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emil M. Cioran