In fact, the phrase "My country, right or wrong" was uttered by Naval Commander Stephen Decatur in 1816. The full sentence: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." Carl Schurz picked it up half a century later expanding on it in the version that Alan Klein quoted. mmp
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:07:29 -0800, BJ Peters wrote: >Alan-- I appreciate this and want to use the quote. Would you be >willing to verify the citation is correct with date, etc.? Thanks --BJ > >BJ Peters >[email protected] >602.279.4805 > >"The path of violence moves - sharp, sharper, sharpest, while the path >of nonviolence moves - gently, gentlier, gentliest." >-- Dwarko Sundrani, last active disciple of Mahatma Gandhi > >On Sunday, February 6, 2005, at 05:18 AM, Alan Klein wrote: > >> "..My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My >> country, >> right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set >> right." >> (The Congressional Globe, vol. 45, p. 1287) Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg i.G. Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany ++49-30-772 8000 www.boscop.de www.michaelmpannwitz.de Check out the new Open Space World Map now with 170 Open Space Workers in 37 countries www.openspaceworldmap.org * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
