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

- Carl Schurz

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as …

- Carl Schurz

When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the bann…

- Carl Schurz

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 chara…

- Carl Schurz

I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfi…

- 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…

- Carl Schurz

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

- Carl Schurz

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

- Carl Schurz

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 …

- Carl Schurz