“To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong'.”

Andrew Carnegie
Original source
Quoted in: "An Imperial Moment" (December 5, 2002), by Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton at The Nation. ↗

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