Vice-Presidents of The United States
- Daniel D Tompkins—6th Vice-President of the United States, 4th Governor of New York, declined appointment as United States Secretary of State by President James Madison
- Theodore Roosevelt—(Law) 25th Vice-President of the United States, organized and helped command the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War, Medal of Honor
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Famous quotes containing the words united states, united and/or states:
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“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)
“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)