Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "PATRIOTISM, n. 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."
Ambitious | Combustible | Defined | Dictionary |
Enlightened | Famous | Illuminate | Inferior |
Johnsons | Last | Lexicographer | Name |
Patriotism | Read | Resort | Respect |
Rubbish | Scoundrel | Submit | Torch |