Nick Palmer wrote:
In the sixties the opposition used to say "my country, right or wrong - when right, to be kept right - when wrong, to be put right".
The 1860s, you mean. That is a quote from Carl Schurz (1829-1906), a German revolutionary, a U.S. reformer and a Union general in the Civil War.
Actually, he said that in 1872. - Jed
