A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

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Patriotism Last Refuge Scoundrel

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Bob Dylan

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

Emmett Tyrrell

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Coco Chanel

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

Ralph Barton Perry

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

Roscoe Conkling

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

George Galloway

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Bob Dylan

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Mark Twain

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Michael Crichton

The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Charles P. Kindleberger

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Boies Penrose

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.