Quote#Homeland
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My…
Quote byCarl Schurz · 1829–1906
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Remarks in the Senate (29 February 1872) He was here responding to the famous slogan derived from a statement of Stephen Decatur: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.".
English (original)
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. 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.
— Carl Schurz
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