Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.