"A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot"
and then he says later:
"We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter"
and
"We have a bastard Patriotism, a sarcasm, a burlesque; but we have no such thing as a public conscience. Politically we are just a joke."
If those with moral moorings are unable to be patriots, then why lament the fact that "patriots" have no public conscience?