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Volokh Conspiracy

'Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery'

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A nice line, and often true. (Not always true, to be sure, but how many statements about human actions are always true?) The earliest source I could find is in 1920, crediting the line to Life (presumably Life Magazine, not life the phenomenon).

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.