#united

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #george-b-mcclellan #leadership #united-states-congress #war

I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#federation #forward #i #look #planets

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying. ↗

— Lee J. Cobb

#facilities #government #individual #states #terrifying

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#conservatism #economics #intellectuals #keynesianism #law

What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we’re fearful, we become divided. When we’re courageous and have good leadership, we unite. ↗

— Keith Ellison

#inspirational #politics #politics-of-the-united-states #courage

…My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes. And who benefits most? The lawyers. (Chapter 4) ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#attitude

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#budget #contributing #donor #nations #nearly

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#american #any #assume #buying #chinese

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#each #effectually #find #gives #liberty

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#conscience #cultural #done #economic #educational