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


Decatur's toast at Norfolk, Virginia, April 1816, in A. S. Mackenzie Life of Stephen Decatur (1846) ch. 14

Stephen Decatur Quotes

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

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

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

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