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“The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.”

States United United States Conflict Serving Preparing Armed Conflict

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest, they are all too actively employed to read, except at such broken moments as may suffice for a peep at a newspaper. It is for this reason, I presume, that every American newspaper is more or less a magazine.”

Men May Reason Moments Reading United States Successful Broken Highest Newspapers Magazines Serving Lowest Employed Merchants

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans

“Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.”

Has Beens States United United States Privilege Serving Senate

Author:Dean Heller