Fatherland
“patriotism/civic loyalty”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
fatherland · inviolate fatherland · one's own city
in the texts
First Olynthiac
The homeland whose preservation gives moral force to military service.
of our fighters, that gaining experience of war on Philip’s soil, they may prove the formidable guardians of an inviolate fatherland;
The eyes of the Olynthians are opened to the fact that they are now fighting not for glory, not for a strip of territory, but to avert the overthrow and enslavement of their fatherland.
Orations
The overriding value of loyalty and devotion to one's native city.
but I, without desiring them, have troubles for no other reason, at the hands of men powerless and envious, than that I seem to cherish you, and that I have done my fatherland some good — having shown her, for honour's sake, the equal of the foremost cities — and that I will do more, if god grants it.
Reckoning these things, I rejoice, seeing both my own son and my nephew and the other young men — and many do I see, with god's help, and all of good parents and in form too like the good — so minded as to vie with one another, without envy and jealousy, and with the rest of men, for virtue and good repute, both their own and their fatherland's, and as to how each may be first in the fatherland by …