Stephen Decatur quotes
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“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”
-- Stephen DecaturSource : Toast at dinner, Norfolk, Va., Apr. 1816. This wording is quoted in Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur (1848). According to Respectfully Quoted, ed. Suzy Platt, "Niles' Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland, gave a slightly different version in its April 20, 1816, issue (p. 136). A number of the toasts at the dinner for Decatur were included, probably reprinted from a Virginia newspaper, and Decatur's appeared as 'Our country - In her intercourse with foreign nation
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“My country, right or wrong, but still my country.”
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“It is part of a sailor's life to die well.”
-- Stephen Decatur
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“What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.”
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“Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.”
Source : Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”
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Source : "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar". Book by Marshall Brown, 1899.
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