Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or set:
“Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody’s image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)
“... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)