My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. In similar style, I hold that I am dogmatic and right, while Mr. Shaw is dogmatic and wrong.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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'.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.
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