Quote#Homeland
Our Country,—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or…
Quote byRobert Charles Winthrop · 1809–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Toast at Faneuil Hall on the Fourth of July, 1845. Compare: "Our country! in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong", Stephen Decatur (1779–1820), toast offered by at a public dinner at Norfolk, Va., April, 1816..
English (original)
Our Country,—whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less,—still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.
— Robert Charles Winthrop
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