#states

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#better #cocktails #cuba #given #jazz

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#backward #butcher #holler #i #i think

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#different #each #families #letters #live

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#being #beside #canada #fight #force

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#almost #always #feel #home #politician

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#arms #cannot #composite #every #follow

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. ↗

— James Madison

#example #happy #hope #liberty #miracle

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. ↗

— James Madison

#happiness #liberty #our #permanent #political

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor. ↗

— John Mahoney

#black and white #changes #glorious #i #just

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#been #close #doors #large #resist