United States
- Lilac Festival (Rochester) - since 1898 in Rochester, New York
- Lilac Festival (Spokane) - since 1938 in Spokane, Washington
- Lilac Festival (Mackinac Island) - since 1949 on Mackinac Island, Michigan
- Lilac Festival (Lombard, Illinois)- since 1929 in Lombard, Illinois, known as The Lilac Village. Its "Lilacia Park", landscaped by Jens Jensen, features 1,200 lilacs on 3.4 hectares. Every May since 1929, Lombard has hosted Lilac Time featuring a number of events for lilac enthusiasts.
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“What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusetts is one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816–1902)
“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1954)
“Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,—never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)