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U.S. GOVERNMENT : The president proposes and Congress disposes. (Unknown source)

U.S. GOVERNMENT : If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. (James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)

U.S. HISTORY : The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian, and Caribbean history of the United States. (Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

U.S. PRESIDENCY : [As a president] you are essentially a relay swimmer in a river full of rapids, and that river is history. (Barack Obama, U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

U.S.A. : I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

U.S.A. : Our government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation. (Bill Moyers, U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934)

U.SA. : The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country -- and we haven't seen them since. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

UBUNTU : My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours. . . . . We say, A person is a person through other persons. (Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)

UBUNTU : A person is a person through other persons. (Desmond Tutu, South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop, Born 1931)

UBUNTU : A person is a person through other persons. (Unknown Source)

UNANIMITY : Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954Liberty: We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954Language: No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. poet, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891Trees: Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. (Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and novelist, 1911-2004Vision: Where there's no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18, King James Version of the BibleSustainability: I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E.B. White, U.S. writer, 1899-1985Language: A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. (Max Weinreich, Yiddish linguist and author, 1894-1969Power: The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. (Jerry Rubin, U.S. activist and author, 1938-1994)

UNCERTAINTY : Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain. (Eric Fromm, German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and democratic socialist, 1900-1980)

UNCERTAINTY : ï¿½You must have uncertainty confusion, chaoswithin you to give birth to a dancing star. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

UNCERTAINTY : The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. (Ursula K. LeGuin, U.S. author of fantasy and science fiction, Born 1929)

UNCERTAINTY : The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next. (Ursula K. LeGuin, U.S. author of fantasy and science fiction, Born 1929)

UNDERSTANDING : It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

UNHAPPINESS : Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Edward De Bono, Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933)

UNHAPPINESS : Itâ€™s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. (Marilyn Monroe, U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962)

UNINFORMED : Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, and producer, Born 1929)

UNITY : Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything. (Henry S. Haskins, U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

UNITY : Unity does not mean conformity. (Wes Annac, U.S. writer and editor)

UNITY : One and Many One flame, many candles; one sky, many stars; one sea, many rivers . . . (Noel [Paul] Stookey, U.S. singer and songwriter of the 'Peter, Paul, and Mary' trio, Born 1937)

UNIVERSE : The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. (John Hughes Holmes)

UNIVERSE : We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSE : For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. . . . That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSE : The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. (Unknown Source)

UNIVERSE : The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

UNIVERSE : There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxyThere are 100 million such galaxies in the universeThere are many universes. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSE : I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. (Walt Whitman, U.S. essayist, journalist,and poet, known as the Father of Free Verse, 1819-1992)

UNIVERSE : It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

UNIVERSES : There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy. There are 100 million such galaxies in the universe. There are many universes. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSITY LIFE : You should make the most of this time and place in your life, for never again will you inhabit an environment so challenging and yet so nurturing, so rigorous and yet so forgiving. (Unknown Source)

UPLIFTING : If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. (Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)

USA : America is . . . the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! The Real American has not yet arrived . . . I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, the common superman. (Israel Zangwill, British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, 1864-1926)

USA : Washington D.C. is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. (John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. Canadian-born economist, public official, diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, 1908-2006)

USA : The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

USA : The U.S.'s national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. (Lewis Mumford, U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990)

USA : The U.S. passed from barbarism to decadence, without having passed through civilization. (Unknown Source)

USA : The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country -- and we haven't seen them since. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

USA : You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and attorney, 1811-1884)

USA : America - the best poor man's country in the world. (William Allen White, newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement, 1868-1944)

USA : America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

USA : Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963)

USA : You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

USA CITIZENRY : Let's hope . . . that Americans come to realize that Washington is dysfunctional not because of the venality of the politicians but rather because of the appetites of the people they represent [who want benefits and lowered taxes, but a balanced budget) (Fareed Zakariah, Indian-American world-affairs journalist TV commentator, and author, Born 1964)