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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson · 1778Political literature1 quote
The love of our country, as the term has usually been understood, has too often been found to be one of those specious illusions which are employed by impostors for the purpose of rendering the multitude the blind instruments of their crooked designs. — William Godwin · 1793