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The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

— Sarah Vowell The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

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Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

Assassination Vacation (2005)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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