" Juan, you know what we’ve taught you? Papa and I?” They’d taught him so many things. To read and to write, and to brush his teeth, and– “To mind and be a good boy?” Again, Mama made that sound that wasn’t quite laughter or a sob, and her hand came down and touched his hair briefly. “That too, my love, but not that. About the USA. About how it existed and was blessed by God as long as it kept to the precepts of liberty and equality before the law. And how it fell and gave its power to supposedly enlightened rulers and then— "

― Sarah A. Hoyt , Here Be Dragons