Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or men:
“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
—Will Rogers (18791935)
“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)
“[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy.... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this wayperhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this waythey do things that waywhat is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.”
—Helen M. Cam (18851968)