Mission Covenant

Famous quotes containing the words mission and/or covenant:

“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)