Ubi panis ibi patria

Ubi panis ibi patria is a Latin expression meaning "Where there is bread, there is (my) country" (or home, or homeland).

In any case, it is reminiscent in its form of another motto that may have served as a model, Ubi bene ibi patria ("Homeland is where it (life) is good"; lit.

This latter expression in turn reminds of a verse (Teucer, fr.

[2][3] Jean-Jacques Rousseau also alludes to this motto in his 1772 Considerations on the Government of Poland.

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