Open Space & Anti-Americanism

[BJ Peters]

And thank you, Alan, as well! --BJ

On Sunday, February 6, 2005, at 02:29 PM, Alan Klein wrote:

> Stephen Decatur is reported to have made the following toast at a
> dinner in
> Norfolk, Virginia, in April of 1816:
>
> "Our country? In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always
> be in
> the right, but our country right or wrong." (Alexander Slidell
> Mackenzie,
> Life of Stephen Decatur, 1848, p. 295)
>
> On February 29, 1872, Senator Carl Schurz made the following remark on
> the
> floor of the U.S. Senate:
>
> "..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."
> (The Congressional Globe, vol. 45, p. 1287)
>
> This is from the web site:
> http://www.c-span.org/classroom/govt/rwh032804.asp
>
> ~Alan Klein
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pannwitz, Michael M
> In fact, the phrase
> "My country, right or wrong"
> was uttered by Naval Commander Stephen Decatur in 1816.
> The full sentence:
> "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always
> be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."
> Carl Schurz picked it up half a century later expanding on it in the
> version that Alan Klein quoted.
>
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