Ubi panis ibi patria

Ubi panis ibi patria is a Latin expression meaning "Where there is bread, there is country". According to J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur in "What is an American", the third of his Letters from an American Farmer, this is the motto of all European immigrants to the United States. It is not clear whether the phrase originates in Crèvecœur's writings or somebody else's.
In any case, it is reminiscent in its form of another motto that may have served as a model, Ubi bene ibi patria. This latter expression in turn reminds of a verse of the Roman tragic poet Marcus Pacuvius quoted by Cicero : Patria est ubicumque est bene. Jean-Jacques Rousseau also alludes to this motto in his 1772 Considerations on the Government of Poland.