Quote by Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson

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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge

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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. – Arthur C. Clarke

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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and wed all pull together. – Parker Stevenson

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