Carl Schurz Quotes

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.