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"Oh, please, ma'am," he finally stammered, "ask me somethin' else."
"Something else, Jimmy? Why should I do that?"
"The fellers was talkin' 'bout it yesterday," replied Jimmy, "Pat McGee said it was discovered by an Irish saint. Olaf, he said it was a sailor from Norway, and Giovanni said it was Columbus, an' if you'd a-seen what happened you wouldn't ask a little feller like me."
Our country! When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right!--_Carl Schurz_.
 Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.   --_Stephen Decatur_.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.--_Robert C. Winthrop_.
Patriotic exercises and flag worship will avail nothing unless the states give to their people of the kind of government that arouses patriotism.--_Franklin Pierce II_.

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WILLIS--"I wonder if there will ever be universal peace."
GILLIS--"Sure. All they've got to do is to get the nations to agree that in case of war the winner pays the...   Decatur, Stephen

Source: Toast given at Norfolk, see Mackenzie's "Life of Stephen Decatur" · Source: STEPHEN DECATUR, toast at a dinner in Norfolk, Virginia, April 1816.Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur, p. 295 .Niles Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland, gave a slightly different version in its April 20, 1816, issue . A number of the toasts at the dinner for Decatur were included, probably reprinted from a Virginia newspaper, and Decaturs appeared as: Our countryIn her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong. · Excerpt from Henrik Ibsen · This quote is about patriotism · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Decatur, Illinois is named for War of 1812 naval hero Stephen Decatur (1779-1820) who captured the British Macedonian in a desperate fight near Madeira Island. Outside of John Paul Jones and David Farragut, Decatur was best known for saying: "Our country...may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" He is also credited for quelling attacks made by pirates in the Mediterranean Sea, who had discouraged commerce by many nations to the region and took sailors as slaves to countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, also known as the Barbery States. Decatur was also credited with one of the most daring acts in naval history on February 16th, 1804, after the US frigate Philadelphia was captured by the Barbery States, then-Lieutenant Decatur with a small ship and crew came into the harbor unnoticed where the Philadelphia was anchored, and set the frigate on fire while not losing a life. For his actions, Decatur was promoted to Captain, and eventually to Commodore before losing his life in a duel in 1820 to a fellow Commodore he had court-martialed and Decatur refused to reinstate him to his.

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