My country, right or wrong...

[Bob Schroeck]

I'd just like to note that the jingoistic types who bandy this phrase back and forth never remember the original context in which it was coined:

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"My country, right or wrong: if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." -- Carl Schurz (1826-1906), in a speech before the US Senate, February 29, 1872

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I do quite like G.K. Chesterton's commentary on the jingoistic use:

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"My country, right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

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-- Bob
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