Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or men:
“Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damn business.”
—Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)
“We are told to maintain constitutions because they are constitutions, and what is laid down in those constitutions?... Certain great fundamental ideas of right are common to the world, and ... all laws of man’s making which trample on these ideas, are null and void—wrong to obey, right to disobey. The Constitution of the United States recognizes human slavery; and makes the souls of men articles of purchase and of sale.”
—Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842–1932)
“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)
“He is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”
—Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)