PATRIOTISM DENOUNCED
“My country right or wrong” is like saying, “My mother drunk or sober.” No doubt if a decent man’s mother took to drink, he would share her troubles to the last; but to talk as if he would be in a state of . . . indifference as to whether his mother took to drink or not is certainly not the language of men who know the great mystery. From A Denunciation of Patriotism, by G. K. Chesterton
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