`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

We are not now afraid of atomic bombs in the same way that people once feared comets.

We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.

We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself, taking evidence from a number of people ''.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

( We do, however, recommend those patented covers to prevent both people and junk -- flora and fauna generally -- from accidentally wintering in the pool.

We could scarcely find eighty in our great land of over 180 million people.

We have set up a central R & D department, as well as engineering-management departments -- about 80 people working on problems related to those of our plants.

`` We do not have people in our organization termed ' consultants ' or ' fellows ', who are specialists in one particular technical subject.

We have complete facilities to accommodate 200 people ''.

We want to know the number of people going to the mountains.

Mr. Alexander H. Wheelan's Study Helps In Point And Figure Technique tells the readers: `` We assure you that the total number of people using this method of market analysis is a very small portion of the sum total of those operating in the securities and commodities markets ''.

We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

We recognize that young people through imaginative mind and body training can become athletes, acrobats, dancers, musicians and artists, developing many potentialities.

We cater mostly to nice people in the $5-8,000 annual income bracket and we run a string of snazzy, neon-lit, chromium-plated suburban stores.

We served our national interests, and by so doing we saved the Guatemalan people the ultimate in human misery.

`` We ask the people what they want, and they supply the labor.

Finally, Orville intoned through his hawk nose, `` We can't have people running in any time they please, Sergeant ''.

`` We must solve the problems which have forced these people to depend upon ADC for subsistence '', Martin said.

We stand more in awe of one another than most people.

We can die, too, we can die like real people.

We all know what the dummies will do '' -- he gestured at the hummocks in which the decorticated men were cradled -- `` and we all know what the new people will ask.

The President ended his address with an appeal to the people of the South: " We are not enemies, but friends.

* Sommer, Barbara W. "' We Had This Opportunity ': African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota " in The State We're In: Reflections on Minnesota History, Annette Atkins and Deborah L. Millers, eds.

Former Secretary of State George Shultz commented on the evening, saying " We felt the ice of the Cold War crumbling.

He is on the Executive Board of the Center for Global Media Studies at Washington State University, an organization whose motto, " Global Media Cover the World ... We Cover Global Media ," connects with the focus of his recent work studying the accuracy of audience recall of news media in a cross-cultural vein ( Faccoro & DeFleur, 1993 ).

Angela Lansbury, who worked with the pair on State of the Union, later said: " We all knew, but nobody ever said anything.

Steve Pieczenik, a former member of the U. S. State Department sent by President Jimmy Carter as a " psychological expert " to integrate the Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga's " crisis committee ", was interviewed by Emmanuel Amara in his 2006 documentary Les derniers jours d ' Aldo Moro (" The Last Days of Aldo Moro "), in which he alleged that: " We had to sacrifice Aldo Moro to maintain the stability of Italy.

We know the appearance of the later State Crown of Henry VII, which shared their fate, as it is depicted in some of the portraits of Charles I by Daniel Mytens and Van Dyck.

Whereas in the past Thomas Jefferson could write to his Secretary of State, " We have not heard from our Ambassador in Spain for two years.

Seeking to expand Congressional support for the doctrine in the 1985 State of the Union Address in February 1985, Reagan said: " We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives ... on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua ... to defy Soviet aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth.

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

Barnett also gives the text of a document from 1769 in the records of the Gilead Lutheran Church " When it had pleased the Almighty and Merciful God in His goodness to plant the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this American part of the world also, and especially in the State of New York, during the reign of Queen Anna, and also in this neighborhood and district called Hosek Road, in Rensselaerwyck, Albany County, then more than twenty years ago, a small body of adherents of the above said Lutheran church, disposed to that end did build and erect a prayer and church House to the Honor of God, and for their convenience, upon that lot of ground which our most worthy Patroon generously gave to promote and perpetuate the service of God and for the better maintenance of our preacher, for which purpose he presented us with a Deed of Gift which We acknowledge with heartfelt thanks towards our Good Lord in Heaven, and that in addition He grants us all hereabouts by His grace that we through the permission of the Government are allowed to carry on our pure Lutheran Church service free and without hindrance.

The city takes its name from a former road, Gun Barrel Lane ( which is now State Highway 198 ), as well as its motto, " We Shoot Straight with You " and its symbol-a rifle with two crossed antique pistols.

According to John C. Paige, who wrote a historical study of the bell for the National Park Service, " We do not know whether or not the steeple was still strong enough to permit the State House bell to ring on this day.

* Change We Must / State of Independence ( 1994 )

Prior to its tabling in Dáil Éireann and presentation to the Irish electorate in a plebiscite, an obfuscatory comment on the final amended draft by Secretary of State Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the future Holy Father Pius XII responded " We do not approve, neither do we disapprove ; We shall maintain silence.

We note again that no claim is made that the activity is not sufficiently connected to the State to justify a tax, or that the tax is not fairly related to benefits provided the taxpayer, or that the tax discriminates against interstate commerce, or that the tax is not fairly apportioned.

Traditionally monarchs, particularly European ones, address each other in formal communications in the singular e. g. ‘ I being desirous ’ but address Presidents and other Heads of State in the majestic plural e. g. ‘ We being desirous ’.

Statement on Irish Free State passport ( 1927 ): We Timothy Healy, Esquire, one of His Majesty's Counsel, Governor General of the Irish Free State, Request and require, in the Name of His Britannic Majesty, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely ... etc.

A statement on their website says, " We call for the establishment of a Palestinian State, alongside the State of Israel.

He proposed the " Radical Creed ," which, " as I understand it, is this: We have not abandoned our old belief in liberty, justice, and Self-help, but we say that under certain conditions the people cannot help themselves, and that then they should be helped by the State representing directly the whole people.

" We contend that a Natural State, sometimes idealized by movements with a tendency to look towards the past, does not exist and has probably never existed since man's first appearance in the biosphere, insofar as humanity has always progressed by increasingly harnessing Nature to its needs and not the reverse.

One such occasion was in Cherry Creek State Park, Denver, Colorado, in 1993: to help celebrate the sixth World Youth Day, she was invited to sing her song " We Are One Body ", the theme song for the event, live to the Pope.