As Ambrose Bierce wrote in The Devil's Dictionary: "In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due res

As Ambrose Bierce wrote in The Devil's Dictionary: "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." http://dd.pangyre.org/p/patriotism.html http://dd.pangyre.org/p/patriotism.html