“Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.”
Source: The Prague Cemetery
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Umberto Eco 120
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016Related quotes

“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.”
Misattributed

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
April 7, 1775, p. 253
Boswell's full mention of this statement reads:
:Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991): "Obligation to the State" http://www.ecn.cz/temelin/textonly/state_zin.htm

The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)

"Family Values," The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed (1991)

“Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.”
University of Houston, Pride Stories http://www.uh.edu/pride-stories/Brene-Brown/Brene-Brown-Story%20/index.php