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April 8, 2003
from the Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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.
Posted by pogo at April 8, 2003 11:21 AM
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