 | Vermont. General Assembly. Senate - Vermont - 1917 - 1008 pages
...the divine fire of patriotism and keep it ever burning; and then repeat these words, "Our country, may she always be in the right; but our country right, or wrong." His Excellency, Governor Graham, having concluded his address, upon direction of the president of the... | |
 | Philip Robert Dillon - History - 1918 - 378 pages
...short war. In April, 1816, Commodore Decatur, at a banquet in Norfolk, Va., gave the following toast : "Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" This expression afterwards became a national slogan in the United States. Mar. 3 (1820)— Bill admitting... | |
 | Child development - 1918 - 466 pages
...historic expedition to the Mediterranean, he was called upon for a toast. He responded by saying : " Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong." Considering the position of Decatur, this sentiment was a very noble one. Decatur was a naval officer... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - 1918 - 274 pages
...is in the patriotism of its people, even if need be to the limit of old Commodore Decatur's toast, "Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations...be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong." It was the proud boast of Hindenburg that he would be in Paris on the first of April. His entrance... | |
 | National Safety Council - Accidents - 1918 - 1264 pages
...think war all the time. Our editorial column has borne for about two years Stephen Decatur's maxim: "Our country; in her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong!" In this number is a little joke on one of the boys, but the... | |
 | Georg Büchmann - Quotations - 1919 - 774 pages
...Kommodore Stephen Decatur (1779—1820) in einem Toast in Norfolk die kraftvollen Worte: „Our countryl In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right, but Our country, right or wroiig l" Vgl. Mackenzle, Life of Stephen Decatur, Boston 1846, S. 295. Im Jahre 1895 erschienen in... | |
 | John Huston Finley - Democracy - 1919 - 374 pages
...derived from the famous toast of Commodore Decatur : " Our Country : In her relations with other lands may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." The Commodore did not mean that we were not to try to rectify a wrong, but that if the government in... | |
 | Shelby County War Historians - Shelby County (Ill.) - 1919 - 234 pages
...manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. — Sheridan. Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right ; but our country, right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur. Patriotism depends as much on mutual... | |
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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. 
