Country Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country Our country Patriotism Pernicious Right or wrong Sentiments
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My country, Right or Wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right. — 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 uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right. — Gore Vidal 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
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image