“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 Defence of Patriotism"
The Defendant (1901)

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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