 | Holland Society of New York - 1916 - 332 pages
...about it, something had to be done and something has been done. Remember Commodore Decatur's toast: "Our Country, in her intercourse with foreign nations,...the right, but — Our Country! — right or wrong. " (Applause.) In the same spirit of loyalty, I now ask you to drink to the toast : THE PRESIDENT OF... | |
 | Louis Freeland Post - 1916 - 432 pages
...of the time, he was called upon for a toast on that occasion, Decatur responded with this sentiment: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong." Considering its source, the sentiment was a good one. For Decatur spoke as a naval officer pledged... | |
 | 1916 - 632 pages
...his outlook upon life more sympathetic consideration. "Our country!" in the words of Stephen Decatur, "our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations...be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong." — Sept. 29, 1915. PLOTS AND PATRIOTISM During the past four months there has been a succession of... | |
 | Eugene Clyde Brooks - 1916 - 586 pages
...and even criminal, if the acts were those of a private citizen. Admiral Decatur's familiar toast — "Our Country! In her intercourse with Foreign Nations,...be in the right; but our Country, right or wrong" — is a fine expression of patriotism and a guarantee of national solidarity. However, the sentiment... | |
 | Michigan. Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner - 1916 - 330 pages
...its editorial columns the Lansing Journal flys an American flag and underneath is this sentiment : "Our country, in her intercourse with foreign nations...be in the right, but our country right or wrong." Let us suggest that the Journal alter this motto to read as follows : "Our advertisers, in their intercourse... | |
 | eugene c. brooks - 1916 - 756 pages
...even criminal, if the acts were those of a private citizen. Admiral Decatur's familiar toast—"Our Country! In her intercourse with Foreign Nations,...always be in the right; but our Country, right or wrong"—is a fine expression of patriotism and a guarantee of national solidarity. However, the sentiment... | |
 | 1915 - 364 pages
...realization of what is happening in the Department. The time-honored remark of Stephen Decatur to the effect, "Our country in her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right, and always successful. — -right or wrong," is indeed a noble sentiment, and it is to the credit of... | |
 | Edward Benjamin Krehbiel - 1916 - 354 pages
...it must be planetary. "Above the nations is humanity" — Goethe. The old patriotism: "Our country! May she always be in the right, but our country right or wrong." — Stephen Decatur. The new patriotism: "Our country! When right to be kept right, when wrong to be... | |
 | Joseph Anthony Milburn - 1916 - 314 pages
...taint of hyphenation. I believe with all my heart in the toast of Stephen Decatur, "Our country . . . may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" I exult in America, in its noble spaces, its superb historic accomplishment, its regal hospitality;... | |
 | 1917 - 820 pages
...passion enough to love one country and so loves all. Stephen Decatur spoke the true word in his toast : "Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." Until his country has gone so far and so persistently wrong that the right of revolution has come,... | |
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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. 
