There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
George Galloway
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- I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.
- I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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