Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man in the desert… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right. — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too. — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
