Famous quotes containing the words north, states and/or relations:
“The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)
“Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)