My Country Right Or Wrong Quotes

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

Carl Schurz

#2. Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

Bertrand Russell

#3. The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. Exactly patriotic. My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism." Griezman

Lee Child

#5. The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

U Thant

#6. Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. 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

#9. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

Patrick O'Brian

#10. My country right or wrong is like saying my mother drunk or sober. G.K.Chesterton This is one of my favorite quotes and would bring about world peace if more knew and lived it.

Wayne Costigan

#11. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In

Stephen Kinzer

#12. My country, right or wrong, but still my country.

Stephen Decatur

#13. 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'

Carl Schurz

#14. That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

James Russell Lowell

#15. America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

Brad Pitt

#16. The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that.
It has to do with cutting the right deal.

Nelson DeMille

#17. I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

John J. Crittenden

#18. In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Lionel Shriver

#19. When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Robert Bolt

#20. I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

John G. Diefenbaker

#21. I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don't know the difference and we're seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.

Billy Graham

#22. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

#23. It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world.

Tim McGraw

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

Carl Schurz