Gunner wrote:
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 03:01:17 GMT, "J. R. Carroll"
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Liberal: a power worshiper without power.
- George Orwell

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandm=
other
when in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is
that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find
the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work
in order to survive.
- Thomas Sowell
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. =

=97Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1775 =


Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity.
"Patriotism" is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by
"patriotism" I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanit=
y,
above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one=
's own
nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with =
its
material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love =
for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's=

country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but ido=
latrous
worship. =

=97Erich Fromm =


Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
=97Bertrand Russell =


Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. =

=97George Bernard Shaw =


A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot. =

=97 William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) US newspaper publisher, Recalled =
on his
death 14 Aug 1951 =


A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his governme=
nt. =

=97 Edward Abbey (1927-1989) US author =


The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or r=
eligion
but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners =
often
forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
=97Samuel P. Huntington =


The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is gen=
erally
employed only by small children and large nations. =

=97David Friedman =


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