English Explanatory Dictionary

my country, right or wrong

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. an expression of patriotism.

Word forms

my country, right or wrong

Etymology

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!” Often attributed to Carl Schurz, who in a speech in 1872 amended it as : “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

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