“The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

About Carl Schurz

Statesman • American

Carl Schurz was a German revolutionary who later became a prominent American statesman, reformer, and journalist. After emigrating to the United States, he served as a Union Army general during the Civil War,...