They were doing everything they could to help the fatherland.
loyalty to the fatherland
patriotic duty to the fatherland
fight for the fatherland
pride in the fatherland
sacrifice for the fatherland
unity for the fatherland
defending the fatherland is a noble cause
From father to fatherland is but a short step.
Swear an oath to God and the fatherland never to separate, until we have made a sound and just constitution.
An austere patriot’s passion for his fatherland!
Holy Russia, our fatherland, lies in eternal sleep.
We sincerely believe that the fatherland doesn't deserve this bloodshed.
" You have to fight for your fatherland. You have to take courage. Look at what Schwarzenegger did just to win this title."
There was one rather good sentence in it about our liberated serf, who was to march over the face of the fatherland bearing a torch in his hand.
He did not settle upon this career through any desire to be a dictator, nor any theoretical love for a fatherland which did not yet exist, nor through pride in Prussia, his more immediate home.
" Well" ? he began. " Is my sacrifice to be received on the altar of the fatherland? Am I permitted to bring, if not the whole at any rate, twenty-five or thirty roubles for the common cause" ?
It is time for the hurricane of war to burst once more upon these vitiated minds. The fatherland, Russia, is invaded. Then comes the day of Borodino, with its solemn majesty. Enmities are effaced. Dologhov embraces his enemy Pierre.
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