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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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A collection of witty and insightful essays exploring American history and identity.

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History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles, cluttering up the minds of schoolchildren with nonsense.

Sarah Vowell

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Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

Sarah Vowell

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It's so easy to mock the cult of celebrity but the cult of the common man is no nobler.

Sarah Vowell

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The United States is built on a foundation of dead presidents.

Sarah Vowell

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I suppose it's a bit odd to think of America as this little vulnerable country when it is so powerful.

Sarah Vowell

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I love my country more than I love my cynicism.

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The most dangerous idea in American politics is that only one side has a monopoly on truth.

Sarah Vowell

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The country was founded on a distrust of government.

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We are a nation of immigrants, and we should recognize that.

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Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

Sarah Vowell

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