Actually, the original quote (IIRC) was ""My country, in her intercourse with other nations may she always be in the right, but my country, right or wrong."   (And I thought it was from John Paul Jones or Stephen Decatur, or one of those military guys, not Henry Clay.)

And the Samuel Johnson quotation was something like "Patriotism (is) the last refuge of a scoundrel."

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