Carl Schurz Quotes

#1. Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Carl Schurz

#2. Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny

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#3. From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

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#4. My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

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#5. Of course the play as I wrote it amounted to nothing; but in weaving the plot through successive scenes, and in writing out some of the dialogues, I enjoyed the full bliss of literary creation. Never to have tasted this delight is never to have known one of the greatest joys of life.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.

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#8. Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

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#9. If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

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#10. We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

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#11. Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

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#12. Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

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#13. I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

Carl Schurz