History Quotes / MyCountryRightOrWrong

-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''', ''ComicBook/PublicEnemies''

-->-- ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'', [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fdb8829e239 The Version War]]

-->-- '''Craig Mazin''', responding to [[MisaimedFandom conservatives who praised]] ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' as an indictment of all left-wing thinking.

-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''', ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman: ComicBook/PublicEnemies2003''

->''"[[TropeNamer My country, right or wrong]]; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."''

->''In the finer moments of his life he had marked out in his imagination a death for himself, a death that would come to him in service to a monarchy which, in his mind, had the sanctity of a superstition. Rights and wrongs--he had nothing to do with these. Alexander may have ruled wisely or with the hand of a tyrant, for this he had no care. It was not the hour of judgment, but of duty; the yielding up of life that those who came after him and bore his name might yet place a laurel to his memory in sincerity.''

->''Citizens fear that the unknown will be worse than the known: a foreign philosophy, a strange religion, or perhaps society breaking down to anarchy...and people may be loyal to the idea, or to the ideals, of a nation or empire, even when the reality is tarnished.''

->''Display obedience''\\
''While never stepping out of line''\\
''And blindly swear allegiance''\\
''Let your country control your mind''\\
(Let your country control your soul)

-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Comicbook/SupermanBatman: Public Enemies''

You couldn't pull the hexarchate apart and exchange it for something better. The fact that heretics always lost was proof of that. So you had to do the next best thing, the only thing left: serve, and hope that serving honorably made some small difference.

!!AnimeAndManga

-->--'''Colonel Shikishima''', ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}''

!!{{Comic Book}}s

!!{{Film}} -- Live-action
->''"I am loyal to that throne, no matter WHO sits on it."''
-->--'''Okoye''', ''Film/BlackPanther2018''

-->--''Film/LettersFromIwoJima''

!!{{Literature}}

!!LiveActionTV
->"Governments make policy. Soldiers have to accept those policies even when they're ''completely'' contradictory. It's the very definition of your job. A solider accepts that the face of 'truth' [[PropagandaMachine changes on a daily basis.]]"
-->--'''Interrogator''', ''Series/BabylonFive'' ([[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS04E18IntersectionsInRealTime}} "Intersections in Real Time"]])

!!{{Tabletop Game}}s

-->-- '''''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Space''''', sidebar: "Why People Support Rotten Empires"'''

!!{{Video Game}}s

-->-- '''Collective Consciousness''', theme song of [[spoiler:'''Senator Armstrong''']], ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''

--> -- '''Camus''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon''

-->--''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV DS''

->"I'm not some blind, flag-saluting, do-as-they-will NCR lover. They're like family, but let me tell ya what family means. You ever had a brother? Some dumbass younger brother, say, who knocked up the pastor's daughter, can't hold down a job and his home-away is a jail cell? ''That'' is NCR. Their compass is spinning. All the time."

->"Unlike Sokolov, the thought of defecting has never once crossed my mind. I love my country. I love this land. I cannot even imagine living anywhere else. I wish to remain a hero of the great motherland."

->"What I remember about [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith the rise of the Empire]] is... is how ''quiet'' it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew [[FinalSolution what was about to happen, what we were about to do.]] Did we have any doubts? Any private traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word."

!!WebOriginal

-->--'''[[http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-dallas-cowboys-1630689925 Drew Magary]]''', "Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Dallas Cowboys"

-->--''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'', [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fdb8829e239 The Version War]]

!!WesternAnimation
->"No, dude. America may have some problems, but it's our home, our team. And if you don't want to root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium."
-->--'''Stan''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' ("Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants")

!!RealLife
->''As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII trying to kill me]]...They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are "only doing their duty", as the saying goes. Most of them would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''The Lion & the Unicorn''

->"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but still our country, right or wrong."

->''[[TropeNamer My country, right or wrong]]; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.''

--> -- '''Creator/GKChesterton'''

--> -- '''Patrick O'Brian'''

-->--[[http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/28511/the-revival-of-tory-philosophy/ Conservative Philosophy Group forum]]

->'''Hale:''' I thought for a while, the CIA had... [[PretextForWar arranged]] the [[NukeEm suitcases]]. Like King Awad's suicide.\\

-->-- '''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'''

'''Philindros:''' Mr. Hale, we only try to do what's right.
'''Hale:''' Even when it's wrong?

->UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} was a failure of humans whose loyalty to (or fear of) a broken governing party overruled their sense of decency and rationality. [[ShutUpHannibal You're the old man with the cane]]. You just worship [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump a different man]]'s portrait.