The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
Carter G. Woodson

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Woodrow Wilson

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
Frank McCourt

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore Vidal

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
Nikita Khrushchev

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
Howard Zinn

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Dylan Thomas

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Marilyn vos Savant

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Demosthenes

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Demosthenes

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy Carter