Definition of Patriotism

Patriot

PATRIOTISM noun

	Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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