Following on Little Hawk's post above:--

"My country right or wrong. My country if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." From a speech by Carl Schurz in the U.S. Senate.

February 29, 1872. Unfortunately, all you usually hear these days is the first part of that quote.

And hobbitwoman:--She also made a remark about herself and her former disdain for the "old songs" and how at one time everything she sang had to have political merit, but now she sings songs just for the love of them. I'm glad to hear it. There was a time when I thought that Joan got a bit too preachy, but she's always been all right with me. I like her early records the best.

Don Firth