Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or senator:
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.”
—Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915)
“Helicon: “It takes one day to make a senator and ten years to make a worker.”
Caligula: “But I am afraid that it takes twenty years to make a worker out of a senator.””
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)