my country, right or wrong

Meaning

Phrase

• an expression of patriotism.

Origin

• Originally Stephen Decatur, in an after-dinner toast of 1816–1820:
• : “Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!”
• Later amended as, and often attributed to, Carl Schurz, 1872 as,
• : “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”