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United States Quotes - Page 26

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.431

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

"Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.570, Best Books on

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

Ezra STILES (1785). “The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected”, p.150

Nothing is impossible in the United States.

Ève Curie (1937). “Madame Curie: a biography”

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.