Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
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Mon Aug-22-05 06:45 PM
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| Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel |
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Dr. Samuel "White Magic" Johnson
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Mon Aug-22-05 06:46 PM
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| 1. it's been my sig line for months. sums it up quite well I think |
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Mon Aug-22-05 06:47 PM
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it popped into my head after reading about the bogus speech today by the younger Bush
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Mon Aug-22-05 06:48 PM
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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.
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Mon Aug-22-05 06:58 PM
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..very insightful...I have the "Devil's Dictionary" around the house somewhere..thanks for that, I will have to locate it and re-read it
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Mon Aug-22-05 06:48 PM
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| 4. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent |
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Issac Asimov (Salvor Hardin - Foundation)
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Mon Aug-22-05 06:57 PM
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| 5. Patriotism is the first refuge of a scoundrel. |
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Which does not mean that all patriots are scoundrels, but it does means that the loudmouths are pretty much all scoundrels.
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