Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or men:
“Americarather, the United Statesseems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The schnuckle among the nations of the world.”
—Edna Ferber (18871968)
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Manys the time Ive seen Barney go off, just that same way. Goodbye. Sometimes hed wave. Ten to one he wasnt even seein me. He was thinkin about all those men, you see. All those men who went out to fight, to kill, be killed. And blast his eyes, lovin it.”
—Lamar Trotti (18981952)