THE FIFTH OF JULY. THE DAY "PATRIOTS" CAN RETURN TO WHATEVER IT IS THAT THEY DO

This from Ambrose Bierce:

PATRIOT, n.
One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

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.

AMBROSE BIERCE HAS AN UNMARKED GRAVE IN THE DESERT OF THE REAL!