 | Michael Heim - 2007 - 336 páginas
...the Barbary Coast Wars. The bane of North African pirates, Cdre. Decatur is remembered for saying, "Our country, in her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." Prominent People Born in Decatur in 1946, David Anspaugh went on to direct two classic sports movies,... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 2007 - 926 páginas
...Norfolk, Virginia, at one of the many banquets in his honor, he proposed a toast that became famous: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations...always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."48 In the prevailing mood of postwar nationalism, this accurately summed up the feelings of... | |
 | Ron Hayhurst - 2007 - 361 páginas
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 | Robert J. Allison - 2007 - 280 páginas
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 | Henry F. Woods - 2007 - 324 páginas
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 | Susan Taylor - 2007 - 136 páginas
...and Decatur fell, dying the next day. He is buried in Philadelphia. He is remembered for his toast: "Our country: In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong." (Portrait by Alonzo Chapel; Range Collection.) 80 John Postley... | |
 | Alex Berenson - 2008 - 404 páginas
...shook down the Libyans Along the way, he got famous for a line Machiavelli would have appreciated. 'In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!' Sort of a 'Better dead than red' for the nineteenth century." "I hope you don't throw me overboard,... | |
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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. 
