 | 1917 - 820 páginas
...passion enough to love one country and so loves all. Stephen Decatur spoke the true word in his toast : "Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." Until his country has gone so far and so persistently... | |
 | National Safety Council - 1918 - 1264 páginas
...think war all the time. Our editorial column has borne for about two years Stephen Decatur's maxim: "Our country; in her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong!" In this number is a little joke on one of the boys, but the rough-house... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 944 páginas
...death, which occurred in a duel with Commodore James Barron. Particularly famous is Decatur's "toast": "Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be In the right ; but, our country, right or wrong." DECCAN, dek'an, a name which is somewhat1 variously... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - 1918 - 274 páginas
...is in the patriotism of its people, even if need be to the limit of old Commodore Decatur's toast, "Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong." It was the proud boast of Hindenburg that he would... | |
 | 1918 - 466 páginas
...historic expedition to the Mediterranean, he was called upon for a toast. He responded by saying : " Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong." Considering the position of Decatur, this sentiment... | |
 | Philip Robert Dillon - 1918 - 378 páginas
...short war. In April, 1816, Commodore Decatur, at a banquet in Norfolk, Va., gave the following toast : "Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" This expression afterwards became a national slogan... | |
 | Shelby County War Historians - 1919 - 234 páginas
...manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. — Sheridan. Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right ; but our country, right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur. Patriotism depends as much on mutual sufferings as... | |
 | Arthur Guiterman - 1920 - 328 páginas
...See! the stainless Flag of the Clustered Stars Rides alone in a peaceful sky! [242] DECATUR'S TOAST " Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but. Our Country — Right or Wrong!9' — COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR, Norfolk, Virginia, April, 1816. Up... | |
 | Arthur Guiterman - 1920 - 332 páginas
...buy; See! the stainless Flag of the Clustered Stars Rides alone in a peaceful sky! DECATUR'S TOAST "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but, Our Country — Right or Wrong!" — COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR, Norfolk, Virginia, April, 1816. Up... | |
 | Herman Frederick Krafft, Walter Blake Norris - 1920 - 424 páginas
...Mediterranean, the sea not more of Greek and Roman than of American glory," that he gave the famous response, "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong. ' ' The toast may be said to strike the key-note of... | |
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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. 
