Re: Patriot Purge
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:01 am
Samuel Johnson, 1775:
Ambrose Bierce, ca 1911:Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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 it is the first.
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
