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
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 the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and… — Carl Schurz Copy Share
“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
