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.

Exploring a cave for recreation or science may be called caving, potholing, or, in Canada and the United States, spelunking ( see caving ).

The United States Exploring Expedition ( 1838 – 42 ) under Charles Wilkes reached Samoa in 1839 and appointed of Englishman John C. Williams as acting U. S. consul.

Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, commander of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 – 1842, sailed the USS Vincennes into Penn Cove in 1841.

* January 19 – Captain Charles Wilkes ' United States Exploring Expedition sights what becomes known as Wilkes Land in the southeast quadrant of Antarctica, claiming it for the United States and providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent.

* United States Exploring Expedition

Exploring the reasons Wright appeared to have little to say about the civil rights movement unfolding in the United States in the 1950s, historian Carol Polsgrove has gathered evidence of what his fellow writer Chester Himes called the " extraordinary pressure " Wright was under not to write about the American scene.

Tuvaluan man in traditional costume drawn by Alfred Agate in 1841 during the United States Exploring Expedition.

The United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841.

US Navy Admiral Charles Wilkes ' 1841 Map of the Oregon Territory from " Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.

In 1841, the island was the site of the Bombardment of Upolu, an incident during the United States Exploring Expedition.

Hanapepe was one of the locations visited by the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes ; the expedition arrived in Hawaii in late September, 1840, and spent some time in the islands.

Present at the signing were members of the United States Exploring Expedition.

In 1841 the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes mapped the region and named Neah Bay " Scarborough Harbour " in honor of Captain James Scarborough of the Hudson's Bay Company, who had provided assistance to the expedition.

The United States Exploring Expedition, under Charles Wilkes, entered Puget Sound in 1841.

The island was named Fox by Charles Wilkes during the United States Exploring Expedition, to honor J. L.

* Charles Wilkes ( April 3, 1798 – February 8, 1877 ) – American naval officer and explorer who commanded the United States Exploring Expedition.

Rotuma was visited as part of the United States Exploring Expedition in 1840.

His publications included " Birds of California ", a handsome octavo volume, containing descriptions and colored engravings of fifty species not given by Audubon ; a " Synopsis of the Birds of North America "; " Ornithology of the United States Exploring Expedition "; " Ornithology of the Japan Expedition "; " Ornithology of Gillis ' Astronomical Expedition to Chili "; and the chapters on rapacious and wading birds in the " Ornithology of the Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys ".

In 1836 and 1837 he was assistant to Professor Silliman in the chemical laboratory at Yale, and then, for four years, acted as mineralogist and geologist of the United States Exploring Expedition, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, in the Pacific Ocean.

He led the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 and commanded the ship in the Trent Affair during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

The United States Exploring Expedition, commonly known as the " Wilkes Expedition ", included naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, taxidermists, artists and a philologist, and was carried by the USS Vincennes ( 780 tons ) and Peacock ( 650 tons ), the brig Porpoise ( 230 tons ), the store-ship Relief, and two schooners, Sea Gull ( 110 tons ) and Flying Fish ( 96 tons ).

Pacific Northwest: 1841 Map of the Oregon Territory from Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition

The United States Exploring Expedition passed through the Ellice Islands and visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841.

His Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition ( 5 volumes and an atlas ) were published in 1844.