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RE: [ST] What is an American?



In a previous email, BrettWilson21@xxxxxxx stated:
> A healthy dose of patriotism is a good but if you want to engage in such
> things there are plenty of sites and other outlets available.

Steve Lawler replied:
>  "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
      --Samuel Johnson (English poet and critic, 1709-1784)

How about:
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of
saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or
sober." 
	--G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
...or:
"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am
fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." 
	--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
...or even:
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." 
	--Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)

- --Rick in Oregon
  '01 Sprint ST
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." 
	--Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)


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