Famous quotes containing the words united states, collection, united and/or states:
“I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)
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