07/04/2026
Happy 250 years, USA! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
10 quotes that define America..
1. "E Pluribus Unum — Out of many, one." — Motto of the United States (1782). Four words stamped on our coins and our character: many peoples, one nation.
2. "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies." — Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861). Lincoln's plea on the eve of civil war.
3. "America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals." — George W. Bush, First Inaugural Address (2001). What actually holds this country together.
4. "This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." — Theodore Roosevelt. The common good, stated plainly.
5. "We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike." — Maya Angelou (1990), from her poem “Human Family.”
6. "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." — Frederick Douglass (1855). Judge an alliance by the cause, not the team.
7. "Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans." — John McCain, concession speech (2008). From a man defined by reaching across the aisle.
8. "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Persuasion over contempt, in a single sentence.
9. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that." — Martin Luther King Jr. On meeting hatred with something other than more hatred.
10. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." — The Declaration of Independence (1776). The promise we started with, and the one we're still working to keep — together.