2006-09-05 08:31:38 · 14 answers · asked by joseph m 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Samuel Johnson
2006-09-05 08:34:34 · answer #1 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Senator Tom McClintock
Date: November 7, 2003
Publication Type: Column Print Version
When Samuel Johnson said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” he’d obviously never seen California politics. If he had, he would have known that tragedy is actually the last refuge, as evidenced by recent attempts to link the tragic and devastating fires in Southern California to repeal of the car tax.
2006-09-05 15:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Samuel Johnson
- or did he actually say "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"?
I've heard several versions of this and I don't know which was the original, though it is certainly appropriate to politics.
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Thanks Dick Dastardly, I have it now. George Bernard Shaw said 'Politics' and Samuel Johnson said 'Patriotism'.
2006-09-05 15:41:26 · answer #3 · answered by boracic1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boies Penrose
2006-09-05 19:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by MICK D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boies Penrose
2006-09-05 15:33:25 · answer #5 · answered by footynutguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956).
Oops. I was wrong. It was Boies Penrose. Sorry about that.
2006-09-05 15:45:58 · answer #6 · answered by Slut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Bernard Shaw’s
go to the below link and search the page
2006-09-05 15:35:23 · answer #7 · answered by Dick Dastardly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Samuel Johnson said that. He was an English essayist of the 18th century.
2006-09-05 15:34:25 · answer #8 · answered by Nancy C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the same one who said "religion is the opiate of the masses?"
2006-09-05 15:38:14 · answer #9 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You did .. just then. !!! I don't know but it cuts close to the truth.
2006-09-05 15:33:25 · answer #10 · answered by plutoniccatgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋