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.

Breeding habitats are dense woods across Canada, the eastern United States, and south to Mexico ; in recent years it has spread to the northwestern United States, having gradually spread further south in the west.

* Jay Laurence Lush publishes the influential textbook Animal Breeding Plans in the United States.

* Breeding, Kentucky, a town in the United States

The North American Breeding Bird Survey is a joint project of the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) and the Canadian Wildlife Service.

This strain of bee was imported into the United States in 1997 by the USDA's Honeybee Breeding, Genetics & Physiology Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in response to severe declines in bee populations caused by infestations of parasitic mites, and have been used in breeding programs to improve existing stocks.

Breeding work is currently under way in the United States to produce ornamental plants which will not set seed and can therefore be planted without risk.

During World War I, the Breeding Bureau expanded the part of the program which had been providing horses for the United States Army Cavalry Remount Service.

By the 1920s, each state in the United States had passed public laws that stipulated a certain day to be Arbor Day or Arbor and Bird Day observance.

* 1912 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U. S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.

* Bird Day ( United States )

* December 22 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States ( d. 2007 )

The American historian Keith Bird summed up the strategic differences between Hitler and Raeder: " Raeder's continual pressure for an intensified war with Britain and his willingness to risk war with the United States, however, conflicted with Hitler's short-term continental goals.

Bird City is a city in Cheyenne County, Kansas, United States.

Bird Island Township is a township in Renville County, Minnesota, United States.

Bird Island is a city on U. S. Route 212 in Renville County, Minnesota, United States.

* John T. Bird ( 1829 – 1911 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives

Other music journalists critical of the awards stated that the 2005 award should not have been given to Antony and the Johnsons for their album I Am a Bird Now as, while they were British-born, they were based in the United States.

Approximately coinciding with the release of the " Free as a Bird " single and Anthology 1 album ( the first of three double-CD albums ), The Beatles Anthology series of documentaries was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom and ABC television in the United States in 1995.

Lady Bird Lake ( formerly Town Lake ) is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Downtown Austin, Texas, in the United States.

" During his two terms in office ( 1971 – 1975 ), the Mayor of Austin Roy Butler partnered with former United States First Lady Lady Bird Johnson to establish the Town Lake Beautification Committee with the purpose of transforming the Town Lake area into a usable recreation area.

On July 26, 2007, the Austin City Council passed a resolution authorizing the renaming of the reservoir from Town Lake to Lady Bird Lake in honor of Lady Bird Johnson, the former First Lady of the United States and a long-time resident of the Austin area who had died earlier that month.

While the first permanent domed membrane structures were the radar domes designed and built by Walter Bird after World War II, the cable-restrained and air-supported tension membrane structure designed by David Geiger to cover the United States pavilion at Expo ' 70 was a landmark construction.

" Bird feeding has grown into the United States ' second most popular hobby behind gardening.

In the United States of America, the vulture receives legal protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.

In the United States, Black-billed Magpies are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, but " Federal permit shall not be required to control.

In September 2010 Yep Roc issued The Impossible Bird, Dig My Mood and The Convincer on vinyl for the first time, and after a one-night reunion concert with Elvis Costello in October in San Francisco, Lowe embarked on his first non-solo United States tour " this millennium.

Claudia Alta " Lady Bird " Taylor Johnson ( December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007 ) was First Lady of the United States ( 1963 – 69 ) during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson.

* Lady Bird Johnson ( Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, 1912 – 2007 ), First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson