Stephen Decatur Quote

Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.


Toast at a dinner in Norfolk, Virginia (April 1816) reported in Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore, Maryland) 20 April 1816; as cited in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (2010), Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, p. 70


Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.

Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.

Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.

Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.