Stephen Decatur, toast at a dinner in Norfolk, Virginia (April 1816); reported in Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur (1848), p. 295. Variation: "Our country—In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong." Reported in Niles’ Weekly Register, Baltimore, Maryland (April 20, 1816), p. 136.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Countries