The Devil's Dictionary: Patriotism
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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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