#states

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

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The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#could #feet #get #government #help

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

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If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for. ↗

— William H. Seward

#coming #constitution #foreseen #made #namely

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

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I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Therefore, states are equal in natural rights. ↗

— William H. Seward

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If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible. ↗

— John Shadegg

#dependence #economic #efficiently #energy #energy sources