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| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the lst resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. | |
| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?) | In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. - (American author) | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. | |
| Bill Vaughan (1915 - 1977) | A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its
government. - (naturalist and author) | |
| G. K. Chesterton | "My country right or wrong" is like saying "My mother drunk or sober." | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. | |
| George Jean Nathan | Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. | |
| H. L. Mencken | When you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. | |
| Oscar Wilde | Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. | |
| Otis Beck | Patriotism is often used as a shelter for the thoughtless, arrogant, and greedy. |
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