Tabulated here are some of the more assertive judgments opposed to patriotism over the past three centuries.
Never was a patriot yet, but was a fool.
– John Dryden
A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.
– Alexander Pope.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
– Samuel Johnson
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.
– Ambrose Bierce
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