 | Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr - American periodicals - 1915 - 802 pages
...one's place of living. It is the instinct of partiality — the instinct which prompts one to say: "My Country ! May she ever be right. But right or wrong, my country!" "Patriotism," as it is usually understood, is an expression of the tribal instinct. The true patriot... | |
 | John Howard Moore - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1916 - 200 pages
...one's place of living. It is the instinct of partiality — the instinct which prompts one to say: "My Country! May she ever be right. But right or wrong, my Country!" "Patriotism," as it is usually understood, is an expression of the tribal instinct. The true patriot... | |
 | Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America - Church - 1917 - 330 pages
...duty to stand by everything that our country does, irrespective of its moral quality. Men have said, 'My country! May she ever be right; but, right or wrong, my country.' There is a sense in which that is true, but in the sense that the words naturally suggest, that is... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - English language - 1917 - 592 pages
...words up will be sufficient. 1. The advantages and , disadvantages of our present jury system. 2. " My country ! may she ever be right ! But right or wrong, my country ! " 3. The tendency of athletic games as at present conducted is to build up manliness of character.... | |
 | Joseph A. Osgoode - Puritans - 1918 - 232 pages
...office within strange walls, leaving desolate the place where once it stood.—PINDAR, Pythian iv. "Mv COUNTRY ! May she ever be right; but, right or wrong, my Country!" In these words of Stephen Decatur the spirit of Southern patriotism was embodied and its philosophy... | |
 | Edward Kidder Graham - Citizenship - 1919 - 282 pages
...institutions of his fathers, the all-conquering grace of the truly patriotic heart, the eternal verity of "My country, may she ever be right, but right or wrong, my country!" — it is this supreme self-surrender and self-forgetfulness that sanctify all of the temporalities of that war... | |
 | United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau - African Americans - 1919 - 646 pages
...dissenting opinion to make itself known or felt, the regulation would have been made more just, we opine. ' My country! may she ever be right; but right or wrong, My country!' M a sentiment strong in America and in many other nations as well. It evidences faith in and loyalty... | |
 | United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau - Draft - 1919 - 632 pages
...dissenting opinion to make itself known or felt, the regulation would have been made more just, we opine. ' My country! may she ever be right; but right or wrong, My country!" is a sentiment strong in America and in many other nations as well. It evidences faith in and loyalty... | |
 | Arthur Elmore Bostwick - Books and reading - 1920 - 366 pages
...require us to call wrong right and black white? There is a sentiment with which you are all familiar, "My country, may she ever be right; but, right or wrong, my country!" Understood aright, these are the noblest and truest of words, but they are commonly misinterpreted,... | |
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My country, may she ever be right, but right or wrong, my country! 
