In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States.

The rise of the giant corporations in Western Europe and the United States dates from the period 1880-1900.

He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.

but Wright stayed in the United States.

* 1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.

* American Buffalo ( coin ), a one-ounce 24-karat gold bullion coin introduced by the United States Mint on 22 June 2006

In fact, the United States Mint, in anticipation of this practice, implemented new interim rules on December 14, 2006, subject to public comment for 30 days, which criminalized the melting and export of pennies and nickels.

He was appointed by President John Adams as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805.

In October 1795, President George Washington appointed him as Director of the United States Mint, a position he held through succeeding administrations until he retired in 1805.

Category: Directors of the United States Mint

In 2006, the United States Mint began production of the American Buffalo gold bullion coin with a purity of 99. 99 %.

In 1997, the United States Mint issued a Jackie Robinson commemorative silver dollar, and five dollar gold coin.

In 2011 the United Kingdom's Royal Mint minted a fifty pence coin depicting a swimmer and another for the triathlon, in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics, to be held in London.

These responsibilities grew to include management of the United States Mint, keeper of the Great Seal of the United States, and the taking of the census.

* United States Mint coin production

All of these are produced by the United States Mint.

** Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint.

* April 2 – The Coinage Act is passed, establishing the United States Mint.

* The first year of regular production begins for the United States Mint and the half cent is minted for the first time.

However, only in 1821, following the introduction of the gold sovereign coin by the new Royal Mint at Tower Hill in the year 1816, was the United Kingdom formally put on a gold specie standard, the first of the great industrial powers to do so.

This was codified in the 1792 Mint and Coinage Act, and by the Federal Government's use of the " Bank of the United States " to hold its reserves, as well as establish a fixed ratio of gold to the U. S. dollar.

The legislation also established the United States Mint.

On February 24, 2009, the United States Mint launched a new coin featuring Duke Ellington, making him the first African American to appear by himself on a circulating U. S. coin.

* United States Mint offered its first commemorative coins: a quarter and half dollar

Nellie Tayloe Ross ( November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977 ) was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933 – 1953.

In 2005, the United States Mint coined a nickel with a new depiction of the bison as part of its " Westward Journey " series.

The Treasury prints and mints all paper currency and coins in circulation through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United States Mint.