Stephen Decatur Quotes

• My country, right or wrong, but still my country.

  Stephen Decatur

  Country, Patriotism, Stills

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• ¡Nuestro país! En sus relaciones con naciones extranjeras, que siempre tenga razón; pero nuestro país, bien o mal.

  Stephen Decatur

  País, Militar, Patriótico

  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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• It is part of a sailor's life to die well.

  Stephen Decatur

  Military, Sailor, Wells

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• MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG.

  Stephen Decatur

  País

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