On patriotism
PATRIOTISM, n.
Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any
one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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