Explore 2893 quotes by people from United States

Jefferson, Thomas. "J. B. Colvin, Sep. 20, 1810." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Meditation on the Divine Wall, c. early September 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Longfellow, Henry Wadswoth. "The Poets." Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 12.

Washington, George. "General Orders, July 2, 1776." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009, lecture 1.

Twain, Mark. "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain, edited by Lawrence Berkove. Modern Library, 2004, ch. 1.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861, edited by Damion Searls. New York Review of Books, 2009, pt. 2.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.