Who said patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels

Samuel Maunder? Henry F. Bernard J. Dear Quote Investigator: A politician whose popularity is dropping may attempt to recapture acceptance by disingenuously embracing jingoistic patriotism. Here are three versions of a germane saying:.

Would you please help me to identify an accurate version of this saying together with the identity of its creator? Quote Investigator: Lexicographer Samuel Johnson was a celebrated eighteenth-century man of letters.

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More Blogs. Indrani Bagchi Globespotting. Indrajit Hazra Red Herring. Jug Suraiya Juggle-Bandhi. Trump has strong backing through all of his wrongdoing from particular news channels. The newspapers, which tend to be more fact-based, he has declared war against. This is the level of pettiness one descends to through the defence of bogus nationalism.

It has become an acceptable substitute for actual patriotism, which means love for the people and not a hatred of something. And it is very difficult to remove from the system once it is inserted, as America is finding out.

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In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Heroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism. I consider myself a full time deeply committed patriot, a patriot to my nation because of the values it symbolizes, deep values that I would like to uphold. I would therefore be deeply troubled in the present day context if the students at the JNU did utter the inflammatory slogans they are supposed to have uttered.