Patriotism (was Re: Pynchon's anti-Americanism)

[Lord Gro]

>From: barbara100
>Datum: 09/10/04 06:15:48
 
>someone famous said patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. can't
>remember who.....
>oh, samuel johnson....

Ambrose Bierce in the Devil's Dictionary: 
 
PATRIOTISM : Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitous 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
lexicographerI beg to submit that is is the first.

Ton 
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