Famous quotes containing the words states and/or relations:
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)
“Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market.
He has no time to be anything but a machine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)