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

    There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.
    Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)

    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)

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

    A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
    —J.P. (James Pinckney)