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.

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

A nation without patriotism won't win any war.

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.

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

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.