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

 

SomeSay Decatur wasMisquoted. itWasn't aBlindCall2Patriotism

 

 

 

but aPrayer 4guidance,wisdom,temperance inForeignRelations.

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My friend， right or wrong.

yeah, thumbs up! :-)

if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.+1

Nice to learn jingoism, what I was instilled growing up:-)))

看过这个好笑的吗 Be nice to America or beware we'll bring you our...

Democracy :-)))))

是不是就是骨子里的仗义的意思：）

哈哈，仗义是好品质，但不是只对友谊哈。觉得真的好朋友可以包容对方的优点和缺点，共同前行。：-）

You're absolutely right! Because I said so.

btw, who r u? Hahaha ;-)

Why not ask，“Who is ur friend？”：）

that's 2 much to figure out for Wilbur ;-)

It's been a derogatory word in my life exceptionally belong

to over powered countries, USSR, US, and so on 

That's so right in the tribe and so wrong in the West.

agree withU wrt country/nation butAnywhere, 2complicated ;-)

Right or left, middle is the best:))