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Quote by Carl Schurz

“The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

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Carl Schurz

Carl Schurz, a former U.S. Senator, was born on March 2, 1829, and died on May 14, 1906. Schurz was a German-born American politician, journalist, and reformer who supported the Union during the American Civil War and actively participated in political activities after the war, making significant contributions to the progressive movement in the United States. more

“I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.”

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Author:Carl Schurz

“The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.”

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Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.”

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Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.”