Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
345
AUTHOR:
G. K. Chesterton (18741936)
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
G. K. CHESTERTON, The Defendant, p. 166 (1901, reprinted 1972).