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- From: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
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- Subject: Last Refuge of the Scoundrel
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.221808.18583@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:18:08 GMT
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- In article <C00IKH.514@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.015808.5831@quantime.co.uk>, roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips) writes:
- >|>
- >|> "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
- >|> -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),
- >|> Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, vol. 2, p. 344 (6 Apr 1775)
- >
- >Its corollary:
- >
- >The second to last is National Security.
- > -me
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- "The misuse of Samuel Johnson's quote to cover a lack of patriotism is
- the NEW last refuge of a scoundrel." --- Clark Coleman
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- Just based on observation of how often scoundrels defend themselves with
- Johnson's quotation.
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- "It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once." David Hume
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