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Commodore Stephen Decatur. And he said, ‘My country, may she always be right—but my country, right or wrong.
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Burke Davis (Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller)
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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
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Stephen Decatur (Correspondence, between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron, which led to the unfortunate meeting of the twenty second of March)