Okay, it's a day late; but really, truth is timeless.
PATRIOTISM, n.
Combustible rubbish ready 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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