| 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.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | G. K. CHESTERTON, The Defendant, p. 166 (1901, reprinted 1972). |
| SUBJECTS: | Country |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| WORKS: | Gilbert Keith Chesterton Collection |
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