Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that was expressed in Mr. Lippitt's communication. It said in effect that the Government should not be criticised, that those who wish for peace do not consider that the United States must fight or fall in the coming struggle of nations, and that since "my country, right or wrong,' is the right stand to take, we should express by petition our absolute faith in our Government...
...Government is often wrong, often unjust; and the whole basis of a Democracy rests upon the moral sense of the people exerting a continual pressure on the Government through criticism. Sometimes that criticism is expressed in votes, sometimes in petition, but it is absolutely essential to Responsible Government...
Surely "My country, right or wrong," cannot be the highest moral standard! Say rather with Karl Shurz: "My Country right or wrong . . . if wrong, to make right." ARTHUR NEWELL MOORE...
...country, may she always, in her intercourse with foreign nations, be in the right. But my country, right or wrong...
People who want to deal with Russia and Bolshevism by the taboo method imply one or the other of two things: either their secret fear that the Russians are working out a superior system, or their conviction that the American people can't be trusted to tell right from wrong. The first of these ideas belittles democracy; the second denies it. HAZELTON SPENCEE...