Famous quotes containing the words states and/or relations:
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)
“Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)