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  • Maceo, Camilo, Che and of all [applause] who fought to make possible today's fatherland. [applause] Fatherland or death [people shout "We shall win"] We shall win. [applause] - END -

    DEDICATION OF THE GEN MAXIMO GOMEZ VOCATIONAL SC 1976

  • Now before you bristle at the term Fatherland, and start commenting snidely about Godwin's Law, let me share something with you: in his new movie denouncing Big Science's mean, bossy, and totally unfair bias against magical thinking, Stein actually walks through the remains of Dachau concentration camp as he asserts that Nazism would not have been possible without Darwin.

    Jeff Dorchen: Expelled: Ben Stein's Fall from Disgrace... to... Something Even Lower 2008

  • Through the roof of what we call Fatherland social currents begin to filter.

    Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

  • North Korea's view of the conflict, which it calls the Fatherland, is vastly different.

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2010

  • North Korea's view of the conflict, which it calls the Fatherland, is vastly different.

    "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader 2010

  • Castro has closed his speeches with the phrase -- in English, '' Fatherland or death, we shall overcome '' -- for decades ....

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • The German Fatherland is surrounded by an international clique intent on denying it a chance to live.

    A Whole World Against Us 1934

  • Now the dream of Fatherland is over, Austria will soon see that it was only

    A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia 1867

  • Primakov had joined Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov to lead a new party of regional governors called Fatherland–All Russia.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Primakov had joined Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov to lead a new party of regional governors called Fatherland–All Russia.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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