Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 345 |
| AUTHOR: | G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) |
| QUOTATION: | “My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.” |
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| SUBJECTS: | Country |