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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
Typewriting exercise
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur, General (1880-1964)
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
P. J. O'Rourke
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
John Stuart Mill
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry
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