#states

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#democratic #dictatorships #doomed #experiment #fail

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#american #any #assume #buying #chinese

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#each #effectually #find #gives #liberty

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States. ↗

— Simeon Strunsky

#forests #found #hermits #more #mountains

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#accepted #basically #catch #caught #countries

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#comers #first #foundations #furthermore #gain

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world. ↗

— John Sununu

#participating #president #principal #role #security

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences. ↗

— John Sununu

#away #consequences #focused #go #go away

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#demanding #influence #interests #our #place