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Famous quotes containing the words united states, united and/or states:

    “... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    “We can beat all Europe with United States soldiers. Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I’ll whip any other thousand men on the globe!”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

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