Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives.
This is a modification of a March 1967 quote by Israeli politician Abba Eban who said, "Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources." Eban used various versions of this quote over the years. In 1979 he said, "My experience teaches me this: Men and nations do act wisely when they have exhausted all the other possibilities." http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/
In a 1970 Congressional hearing, a version of the quote first referenced Americans. It was attributed to an unnamed Irishman. "And indeed, we often know how to do things by the philosophy that was expounded by another Irishman I know. He said that you can depend on Americans to do the right thing when they have exhausted every other possibility." http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/
The earliest known attribution of the quote to Churchill occurred in 1980. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/
Misattributed
„Es ist immer der richtige Zeitpunkt, um das Richtige zu tun.“
„Menschen, die das Richtige tun wollen, wirken immer verrückt.“
„Es ist wichtiger, das Richtige zu tun, als etwas richtig zu tun.“
„Zu einem immer neuen Gespräch gibt es keine Alternative“
Interview mit dem Zeit Magazin zeit.de 12. Mai 2011 http://www.zeit.de/2011/20/Hans-Dietrich-Genscher/komplettansicht
Quelle: "Wahrheit, Lüge, Täuschung" Anthologie zum Aphorismenwettbewerb 2022, Deutsches Aphorismus-Archiv (DAphA)
Wie's der Alte macht, ist's immer richtig. In: Andersens Märchen. Gondrom Verlag, 1976. Gutenberg-Projekt http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=46&kapitel=2&cHash=26cf0f077ealte#gb_found
„Ich habe mich so sehr bemüht, das Richtige zu tun.“
Letzte Worte, 24. Juni 1908
Original engl.: "I have tried so hard to do the right."
„Zu wissen, was richtig ist, bedeutet nicht viel, es sei denn, Sie tun, was richtig ist.“
