found online by Raymond
From Glenn R. Geist at MadMikesAmerica:
Samuel Johnson is a hard man to figure out, at least for me. Americans are fond of insisting that taxation without representation is tyranny unless it’s Puerto Ricans being taxed. Johnson insisted that the colonies had no right to direct representation – because they were colonists.
Of course, the out of context quote about patriotism being the last refuge of a scoundrel might be his most repeated trope and of late the very word has begun to stink as it has so many times int he past when it’s become a metonym for obedience to authority especially as concerns moral and ethical abdication.