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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.

Carl Schurz

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Carl Schurz
Age: 77 †
Born: 1829
Born: March 2
Died: 1906
Died: May 14
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