Patriotism

[Thomas_More]

Patriotism n.

Combustible rubbish ready 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 it is the first.
Ambrose Bierce

[Moo]

Relatively recently, there was a news-story about a man who died from his injuries after falling from a lamp-post while attempting to put an English flag at the top of it.

Nationalism kills.

[Thomas_More]

Bierce would definitely have had something to say about that.

[Thomas_More]

Futility of war. Song.

[Thomas_More]

The Hofer brothers.

[Ciudadano Del Mundo]

The Maoists in some countries used to confront the police and the military, who were carrying guns, to pick up the communist flag of China; several were killed

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