My love for the fatherland does not force me to turn a blind eye to the merits of foreigners. On the contrary, the more I love my fatherland, the more I strive to enrich my country with treasures not extracted from its depths.

(Voltaire)

You can grow old and not know that you love your fatherland;

but for this you need to stay in it. We learn the essence of spring in winter; the best May songs are sung behind the stove.

(G. Heine)

The homeland is our second mother, and even more so for a homeland like the Urals.

(D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak)

Patriotism does not mean only love for one’s homeland. This is much more... This is the consciousness of one’s inalienability from the homeland, the inalienability of experiencing its happy and unhappy days with it.

(A.N. Tolstoy)

Motherland! She's always beautiful. And in the autumn flames of the forests, and in the snowy January expanse, and in the first spring flowers, and in the golden flood of grain fields!

(V. Dvoryanskov)
Besides my own mother,
There is no mother in the world.
In addition to the homeland - another

There is no native land in the world.

(B. Ukachin)

Russia does not need revival, but cleansing and restoration.

(A.V. Shakhmatov)

What is the Fatherland? This is the sum of economic, legal, political, etc. facts and ideas bequeathed to us by our fathers.

(N. Mikhailovsky)

A country is not some kind of addition to the population, the individuals that compose it; she herself is the soul, conscience, personality, living force.

(E. Ranan)
There were people before us, now we are, and there will be people after us. The Russian warrior on the Kulikovo field is a warrior at Kunersdorf.
A warrior at Kunersdorf is a warrior on the Borodino field. A warrior on the Borodino field is a warrior on Shipka. Warrior on Shipka - This is the defender of the Brest Fortress...
Ideas have changed, people have become different. But they still have one homeland - mother Russia; and at all times blood has been shed in the name of one thing - in the name of the Russian Fatherland. We did not accompany those who fell on the Kulikovo field on their march. It wasn’t us who were awakened by Yaroslavna’s sobs.

We don’t know the names frozen on Shipka... And yet we know them!
Yes, we remember them, we see them, we hear them, we will never forget them. For these are our ancestors, reader.
There is a voice of blood in history. This voice obliges us to do a lot.
Let us not seek glory for ourselves.

We spoke in the days of Batu,

Like on the fields of Borodin:
May Russia be exalted,
Let our names perish!
Like the earth around its axis!…

(N. Rubtsov)

The homeland is the first experienced caress, the first conscious thought that dawns on the head, it is the smell of the air of trees, flowers and fields, the first games, songs and dances...
These are successive impressions of being, childhood, adolescence, adolescence, youth and maturity.

(A.I. Kuprin)

For most people, the feeling of homeland in the broad sense - native country, fatherland - is complemented by a feeling of small, original homeland, homeland in the sense of native places, fatherland, region, city or village. This small homeland with its special appearance, with its - albeit most modest and unpretentious - beauty appears to a person in childhood, at the time of lifelong impressions of the childish soul, and with it, this separate and personal homeland, he comes over the years to that big The Motherland that embraces all the small ones - and in its great whole - is one for everyone.

(A. Tvardovsky)

You don’t yet love Russia: you know how to be sad and irritated by rumors about everything bad, whatever is happening in it, all this produces in you only callous annoyance and despondency.

... If you love Russia, you will be eager to serve her..

(N. Gogol)

Russia has always been a philosophical country. But philosophical not in the German and European sense of the word. The philosophy of Russia has always been a philosophy of the heart, a philosophy of the spirit.

(D. Likhachev)
...Just as a flower grows from a grain, our love for the Motherland has its source in that “corner of the earth” where we were born and raised.
In early childhood, our world is limited to the rooms of our father’s house, later - to the happy awareness of our blood involvement in that sacred and lofty thing that is called by the name of our native country.

In my distant wanderings, I carefully carried the name and image of my Motherland in my heart, just as one carries a portrait of a mother in a hidden medallion. I love everything about my great Motherland - its sad tundras, its rivers, its new buildings that magically revive recently barren deserts, and its dense forests that preserve the original charm of nature.

(N. Smirnov)

In a decent person, patriotism is nothing more than the desire to work for the benefit of his country, and comes from nothing else than the desire to do good - as much as possible and as much better as possible.

The image of the Motherland is always concrete. It cannot be vague or general. They love their native land, where they were born and raised. For one it is the vast expanses of the steppe, for the other it is oras drawing a broken line against the sky. One has a scorching sun overhead, the other has cold flashes of the northern lights. For one it is the silence of a village afternoon, for another it is the dissonance of a city street.

(V. Pekelis)

Love for the Fatherland is a willingness to defend its independence. This is what makes up patriotism - a great, necessary, beautiful feeling. It absorbs love for the Motherland, devotion to it, and the desire to serve its interests through its deeds.

(V. Pekelis)

True patriotism can be defined as love for one's country, respect for all people living in it, knowledge of the customs and traditions of one's people, devoted service to the good of the country.

A patriot is one who, in any situation, puts the interests of the country above his own needs. Patriotism is aimed at the true good and prosperity of the country, which cannot be achieved through immoral actions.

(W. Haynes)

A patriot is one who, in any situation, puts the interests of the country above his own needs. Patriotism is aimed at the true good and prosperity of the country, which cannot be achieved through immoral actions.

True love for one's people, one's Motherland is impossible without love and respect for other countries and peoples. This is what patriotism consists of - not opposing oneself to the whole world, but respect and deep understanding of one’s people, a sense of responsibility for the fate of one’s country, which helps to see the true value of any other culture.

The homeland is dear to the heart not because of its local beauties, but because of its captivating memories.

(N. Karamzin) You are not the only Russian person in this firestorm. From the heights of history, our songful Ermak, and the wise Minin, and the Russian lion Alexander Suvorov, and the glorious artisan Peter the Great, praised by Pushkin, and Peresvet and Oslyabya, who were the first to fall in the Battle of Kulikovo, look at you. IN Hard time ask them, these strict Russian people, who collected our homeland bit by bit, and they will tell you what to do, even if you were left alone among the enemy multitude. With what courage they served her!... And wherever they went beyond distant borders, they bowed to their dear one, and he was
And a handful of native land, sewn into an amulet, was carried to a foreign land, like a mother’s blessing, on the chest. And wherever the dictates of history found the Russian man, his heart, like the needle of a compass, was steadily directed in one cherished direction, towards Russia.

And clean shirts were put on before a mortal feat, going to military suffering, as if on a bright holiday. That is why the Russian land was strong and stood for centuries.

(L. Leonov)

And clean shirts were put on before a mortal feat, going to military suffering, as if on a bright holiday. That is why the Russian land was strong and stood for centuries.

It is known that the feeling of the Motherland in every citizen is commensurate with his personal creative contribution to the common cause, hence it is easy to explain both the patriotism of a true worker and the political indifference of a tradesman.

And clean shirts were put on before a mortal feat, going to military suffering, as if on a bright holiday. That is why the Russian land was strong and stood for centuries.

...A citizen cannot become a person who is separated from the root system of his people. And therefore, the entire education of young people - from the primer to the university bench - must be permeated with an effective master’s attachment to the Motherland and its nature, to everything that constitutes the grandfather’s heritage, on which lies the imprint of the dreams and golden hands of our geniuses.

The feeling of the Motherland cannot be taught, but it cannot be taught. This is akin to teaching writing or artistic skills: the teacher may not know whether his student will become a creator of brilliant compositions, but he is able to instill in him a craving for beauty, he believes in it and is obsessed with it. Stone by stone we are putting together a building whose name is love for Russia.

(Yu. Tyurin)

Dear, bright Motherland! All our boundless love is for you, all our thoughts are with you."

(M. Sholokhov)

Oh, bright and beautifully decorated, Russian land! You are famous for many beauties: you are famous for many lakes, rivers and local springs, mountains, steep hills, high oak forests, clean fields, wondrous animals, various birds, countless great cities, glorious villages, monastery gardens, temples of God and formidable princes, honest boyars, many nobles. The Russian land is filled with everything...

(“The Word about the Destruction of the Russian Land”)

Recognition of the Motherland is multi-layered and diverse, just as knowledge of the secrets of art, the study of nature, and comprehension of the laws of existence is diverse and multi-layered. There is more than one road leading to the goal, but the main thing is to once step on your road, then you must go without turning off.

To combine love for the Fatherland with the first impressions of memory.

(K. Ryleev)

History is a powerful factor in the education of conscious patriotism. To belittle your history and forget it means to spit on the graves of your ancestors who fought for their native land....

They love their homeland not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Seneca

The good news about our land is dear to us: the fatherland and the smoke are sweet for us.
G. Derzhavin

Anyone who does not love his country cannot love anything.
D. Byron

He who does not belong to his fatherland does not belong to humanity.
V. Belinsky

Conscious love for one's people is not combined with hatred of others.
D. Likhachev

Many people tend to confuse two concepts: “fatherland” and “your excellency.”
M. Saltykov-Shchedrin

For us, dear parents, dear children, loved ones, relatives; but all ideas about love for something are combined in one word “fatherland”.
Cicero

If you forget your native land, your roots will wither.
P. Tychina

Patriotism is not love for an idea, but love for the fatherland.
V. Rasputin

Anyone who abandons his people in trouble becomes their enemy.
Ch. Aitmatov

Where there is no freedom, there is no fatherland.
P. Holbach

For the sake of the homeland one must sacrifice even fame.
Latin proverb

Those who serve their homeland well do not need noble ancestors.
French proverb

As a child, you discover a continent that will later be called Motherland.
L. Kostenko

Your home has its own truth, And strength, and will.
T. Shevchenko

The Fatherland is both alpha and omega!
D. Pavlychko

The Fatherland is not someone and somewhere, I am also the Motherland.
I. Svetlichny

The ringing of sabers, songs, marches, the will of a falcon, quiet stars, clear waters - my Ukraine.
V. Sosyura

And the smoke of the fatherland is sweet.
Ovid

Everyone has their own side.
G. Skovoroda

Love Ukraine in dreams and in reality, your cherry-colored Ukraine, its ever-living and new beauty, and its nightingale-like language.
V. Sosyura

You can choose your friends and wife, you can choose not only your homeland.
V. Simonenko

My people, how good it is that I have you in the world.
M. Vingranovsky

There is no Ukraine, There is no second Dnieper.
T. Shevchenko

Love your Ukraine. Love her... In times of cruelty. At the last difficult moment, pray to the Lord for her.
T. Shevchenko

Those who go overseas change the sky, not the soul.
Horace

To you, my Ukraine, and my first breath, and my last breath to you.
V. Ellan

Ukraine's glory and freedom have not yet died...
P. Chubinsky

A piece of land, you are called Ukraine. You were there before us. You will be after us.
L. Kostenko

And you, my Ukraine, Unhappy widow.
T. Shevchenko

For everyone you are dead and funny, For everyone you are poor and unhappy, My Ukraine is beautiful, The side of songs and freedom.
Alexander Oles

Hello, New Year, In last year's scroll. What are you carrying to Ukraine in a patched bag?
T. Shevchenko

The living soul of the people, alive, unsatisfied!
O. Dovzhenko

The earth, scarred with grief, strewn with black misfortune!
M. Rylsky

My people! My people will always be there! No one will cross out my people!
V. Simonenko

I am a people whose power of Truth has never been defeated by anyone.
P. Tychina

I know you, descendants of the Cossacks, I believe you and lower my brow. I look at you and exercise faith, And I hit you with a broken wing.
Alexander Oles

<...>You can still do without any other science; you cannot do without knowledge of your native language.
I. Sreznevsky

Our speech rings and sings, Delights, pleases and intoxicates.
Alexander Oles

The speech lay in the land of the wiki And in the end it came out to the world.
O movo, night lullaby! Please accept my joyful greetings.
Alexander Oles

I feel and realize how beautiful and easy this speech is.
I. Repin

You are amazed at the preciousness of our language: every sound in it is a gift, everything is large, grainy, like pearls themselves.
M. Gogol

And magnified by miracle
Both our mind and our language...
T. Shevchenko

A language dies when the next generation loses its understanding of the meaning of words.
V. Goloborodko

Language is the depth of thousands of years.
M. Shumilo

To attack the language of a people is to attack their heart.
G. Laube

Nations do not die from heart attacks. First, their tongue is taken away.
L. Kostenko

There is no magic stronger than the magic of words.
A. France

Slaves are a nation that has no Word. Therefore, he will not be able to defend himself.
O. Pakhlevskaya

The word is the deed.
L. Tolstoy

In the beginning there was the Word.
Old Testament

Ukrainians - ancient people, and their language is richer and more comprehensive than Persian, Chinese, Mongolian and all kinds of others.
E. Celebi

Long live the great Russian language, but long live the sweetly melodious, incomparable Ukrainian language.
V. Soloukhin

I love you very much<...>the folk Ukrainian language, sonorous, colorful and so soft.
L. Tolstoy

And the song is the soul. Of all needs, need. Only a song in the heart expands the limits of the sky. The sun's radiance remains on her wings. The deeper the song, the brighter the soul.
I. Drach

Folk song - clergyman nation.
A. Mitskevich

A song is when the soul confesses.
G. Tyutyunnik

Ukrainian song is the bottomless soul of the Ukrainian people, this is their glory.
O. Dovzhenko

Ukrainian song is a brilliant poetic biography of the Ukrainian people.
O. Dovzhenko

Our Motherland asks for the help of eloquence, because so many of its glorious exploits are remembered in deep silence.
Feofan Prokopovich

Wise quotes about love for the motherland, aphorisms of great people about patriotism that are put into our heads from a very early age.

Better stale bread at home than many dishes at someone else's table.

P. Aretino

Love to the fatherland must come out of love for humanity, as the particular from the general.

V. G. Belinsky

Be in love your homeland means to ardently desire to see in it the realization of the ideal of humanity and, to the best of your ability, to promote this.

V. G. Belinsky

Any a noble person is deeply aware of his blood relationship, his blood ties with the fatherland.

I. G. Belinsky

P. Beranger

Love to the homeland does not recognize half-heartedness; whoever does not do everything for her does nothing; whoever does not give her everything denies her everything.

L. Berne

Homeland... We owe her our strength, inspiration, and joys.

L. Blok

Fatherland- this is the land where the soul is captive.

F. Voltaire

Truly The courage of enlightened peoples lies in their readiness to sacrifice themselves in the name of their homeland.

G. Hegel

Love to the fatherland is compatible with love for the whole world.

K. Helvetius

Alien will not become a homeland.

I. Goethe

At home you have both a past and a future. In a foreign land there is only the present.

L. Girshfeld

Sayings about the Motherland

Love for the Motherland begins with family. Francis Bacon

You cannot carry away your homeland on the soles of your boots. Georges-Jacques Danton

Where else can one find love for the Motherland and loyalty to the common will, if not among the people themselves? Maximilian Robespierre

Each of us feels the wound inflicted on the Motherland in the depths of our hearts. Victor-Marie Hugo

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my Motherland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!.. it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

First of all, you owe your Motherland, as well as your friends, the truth. Petr Yakovlevich Chaadaev

To betray the Motherland requires extreme baseness of soul. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

Love for the Motherland is the first dignity of a civilized person. Napoleon I (Bonaparte)

They love their homeland not because it is great, but because it is their own. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)

The easier and more freely a people lives in the world, the more they love their Motherland. Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev

A strange thing - patriotism, true love for the Motherland! You can love your Motherland, love it for eighty years and not even know it; but for this you need to stay at home. Love for the German fatherland begins only at the German border. Heinrich Heine

I don’t have a longing for my homeland, but a longing for a foreign land. Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev

The more you feel connected to your Motherland, the more realistically and willingly you imagine it as a living organism. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Everyone has two homelands: one by birth, the other by citizenship. I will never refuse the name of my homeland to the first, even if the second is more extensive, and the first will only be part of it. Marcus Tullius Cicero

The despot's subjects have no homeland. The thought of it is supplanted by self-interest, ambition, and servility. Jean de La Bruyère

Love for the fatherland must come from love for humanity, like the particular from the general. To love your homeland means to ardently desire to see in it the realization of the ideal of humanity and, to the best of your ability, to promote this. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

Let the homeland reveal itself as the common mother of citizens; let the benefits they enjoy in their homeland make it dear to them; let the government leave them a sufficient share in the public administration to make them feel that they are at home; and let the laws be in their eyes only a guarantee for general freedom. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are all exiles in our homeland. Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky

Only empty people do not experience the beautiful and sublime feeling of the Motherland. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

War is barbaric when a peaceful neighbor is attacked, but it is a sacred duty when defending the Motherland. Guy de Maupassant

Historical meaning Every great Russian man is measured by his merits to his Motherland, his human dignity by the strength of his patriotism. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

I prefer to scourge my Motherland, I prefer to upset it, I prefer to humiliate it, just so as not to deceive it. Petr Yakovlevich Chaadaev

“Alone in the field is not a warrior,” said the sentry and went to bed.

There are no “former officers”. You become an officer once and for the rest of your life: first active, then in reserve and only then in retirement. - Mikhail Gladkov

Army discipline is heavy, but it is the weight of a shield, not a yoke. - Antoine de Rivarol

Armies were created to implement the policies of states. – Charles de Gaulle

The army should not be the one we are used to, but the one we need. – Charles de Gaulle

The army is an oak tree that protects the Motherland from storms. It has spread its roots throughout the country and is sucking in folk juices, this oak lives for the nation, which, in turn, protects. An army and a nation are like tree and soil, the former covers, the latter nourishes. - Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich

The army and society are not two worlds, not two different beliefs... The army is getting closer and closer to the people, the officer is gradually approaching the type of citizen-warrior. - Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich

The army of the republic must be one with the nation. - Jean Jaurès

An army in which the officer enjoys the confidence of the soldier has on its side an advantage that cannot be acquired either by numbers, or by the perfection of technology, or by anything else. - Mikhail Dragomirov

An army, like a snake, moves on its belly. - Frederick II

Ah, what a misfortune it is when, in moments of mortal danger, generals refuse to fight! - Albert Lebrun

Without a loyal army, nothing will help. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Teach the faithless army that burnt iron should be sharpened. – Alexander Suvorov

Ruthlessness in battle is the virtue of a warrior. But what hurts most acutely is the help provided to a defeated enemy. - Thiru-Valluvar

Take care of the commander in battle, protect him like your own life.

Take care of the officer! For from century to now he has stood faithfully and invariably on guard of Russian statehood. Only death can replace it. – Anton Denikin

A commander without command is an orphan.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of the best shooters. - Voltaire

Morale was high, our soldiers and commanders believed in themselves. – Konstantin Rokossovsky "Soldier's Duty"

A combat regiment can be called such only if it is able to withstand even the strongest attack. - Thiru-Valluvar

Combat, when properly trained, is nothing special: it is the same as training with live ammunition, only it requires even more calm, even more order. - Joseph Gurko

The soldiers of my division - from its commander to the rank and file - are civilians who put on their uniforms only three weeks ago. I myself was a civilian for two years after demobilization, but had to leave the Society for the Conservation of Nature in order to protect not nature, but the country. This is a common phenomenon in Israel, where today you are a soldier, and tomorrow it is completely different. - Abraham Ioffe

The art of war requires the most sacrifice.

The big battalions are always right. - Napoleon I

Be submissive to your commander and stubborn to your enemy.

In military affairs greatest strength has an accident. - Tacitus

The day a soldier takes up arms, he enters into submission to the regulations: they will always be with him. – Charles de Gaulle

In the army, the way the military leader’s name sounds plays a certain role. – Joseph Stalin

In the army, regiments will be good from the colonels, and not from the regulations, as they should be. - Petr Rumyantsev

In the army, under any system, there is only one system - the army. – Arkady Davidovich

The battles for Stalingrad reflected the heroic strength of the Soviet people and their soldiers. The more Satanic the enemy, the harder and more courageously our soldiers fought. The surviving soldier sought to defend himself and his sector of the front; he avenged himself and his dead comrades. There were many cases when a slightly wounded soldier was ashamed not only to evacuate beyond the Volga, but even to go to the nearest medical center. - Vasily Chuikov