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• Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong…
• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert…
• Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who,…
• We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
• I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on…
• Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.
• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My…
• I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage.…
• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow…
• Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
• Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
• My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

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