Samuel Johnson Patriotism Quotations

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest