I'm sorry I've been lagging on these. Mostly, they had trouble shipping to Utah, and I had also requested some records that were hard to find. I've been meaning to shop here.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.