APAD：my country, right or wrong

"My country, right or wrong" is an expression of patriotism.

Etymology

Originally Stephen Decatur, in an after-dinner toast of 1816–1820:

“Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!”

Often attributed to Carl Schurz, who in a speech in 1872 amended it as

“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

 

Frequently used either as an expression of jingoism (extreme patriotism), in the sense “I will stand by my country whether it be right or wrong”, or to attack such patriotism as unthinking:

"...that patriotism which shouts 'our Country right or wrong,' regardless alike of God and his eternal laws..." -- James Fenimore Cooper

“‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’” — G. K. Chesterton

 

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• SomeSay Decatur wasMisquoted. itWasn't aBlindCall2Patriotism -最西邊的島上- ♀ (49 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 06:02:50

• but aPrayer 4guidance,wisdom,temperance inForeignRelations. -最西邊的島上- ♀ (252 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 06:04:09

• My friend， right or wrong. -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:25:51

• yeah, thumbs up! :-) -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:29:08

• 是不是就是骨子裏的仗義的意思：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:44:04

• 哈哈，仗義是好品質，但不是隻對友誼哈。覺得真的好朋友可以包容對方的優點和缺點，共同前行。：-） -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:50:41

• You're absolutely right! Because I said so. -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:57:00

• btw, who r u? Hahaha ;-) -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 09:02:50

• Why not ask，“Who is ur friend？”：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 09:06:47

• that's 2 much to figure out for Wilbur ;-) -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 09:12:20

• That's so right in the tribe and so wrong in the West. -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 09:31:16

• agree withU wrt country/nation butAnywhere, 2complicated ;-) -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 09:43:35

• if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.+1 -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:31:13

• 看過這個好笑的嗎 Be nice to America or beware we'll bring you our... -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:38:46

• Democracy :-))))) -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:39:21

• Right or left, middle is the best:)) -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/11/2024 postreply 13:14:28

• Nice to learn jingoism, what I was instilled growing up:-))) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 08:36:44

• It's been a derogatory word in my life exceptionally belong -移花接木- ♂ (61 bytes) () 06/10/2024 postreply 09:17:36