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“I give way to no one in my love for my country, my nation, and my people. But it is a nation, for pity’s sake, not a god. It is a country, a fine place to shoot off firecrackers and eat hot dogs on the Fourth. But if you want me to trot out divine honors along with the flag, then my response will be a thoroughly American one. ‘What, are you nuts?’” (Empires of Dirt, p. 62).