Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

And have they fixed the where, and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
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And have they fixed the where, and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would
think of saying except in a desperate read more

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would
think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying,
"My mother, drunk or sober."

Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our read more

Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!

Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?

Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true
patriotism.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true
patriotism.