What country do you believe is the most dangerous in the world?

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47. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel - Samuel Johnson

- from those wiser than I (and my list is much longer than posted here)

Never was a patriot yet, but was a fool. John Dryden

A patriot is a fool in every age. Alexander Pope.

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

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. Ambrose Bierce

That pernicious sentiment, “Our country, right or wrong.” James Russell Lowell

My country right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother drunk or sober. G. K. Chesterton My favorite

Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and My country never wrong is an even more dangerous maxim than My country, right or wrong. Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. Denis Diderot

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. H.G. Wells