55 Metaphors for americas

America is a great, a growing, and a self-respecting Power; yet Americans see no ground for that inevitable conflict of interests between their country and Great Britain which forms the theme of so many German books, from Prince Bülow's candid self-revelations down to less responsible writers like Bernhardi.

America is a new field in which to try experiments in government and social life, which cannot be tried in the older nations without sweeping and dangerous revolutions; and new institutions have arisen which are our pride and boast, and which are the wonder and admiration of Europe.

"When Harriet Hosmer knew herself to be a sculptor, she knew also that in all America was no school for her.

(In America is West)

These men are the real autocrats of the world, even though America is a republic.

America was as flat a wilderness to him as the Desert of Sahara.

To the casual thinker, America is an off-shoot of England.

I never thought to be goin' to Dublin, an' I suppose America is twicet as far.

There was a time when America was blithe with self-confidence.

All these people coming here and getting Americanized and assimilated and all that?" "I'd think America was the melting pot if I could see more signs of the melting," Conover answered.

To all those people standing in awe about that piece of cloth bearing the stars and stripes America was an incarnation of love universal, of freedom and salvation.

All who have studied the United States with sincerity, will ratify the opinion of M. de Tocqueville: "America is the place, of all others, where the Christian religion has preserved the most power over souls."

The family is undoubtedly of old world origin, and for the most part belongs to the northern hemisphere, South America being the only continental area in which they are found south of the equator.

" There still lives, in full possession of all her faculties, a venerable lady who can say that her husband was born at Boston when America was a British dependency.

SEE Lewis, Sinclair. Is America a paradise for women?

He wittily says that Young America is rampant, parental influence couchant; and no reversal of these positions is as yet visible in 1892.

"I humbly pray Almighty God, that Great Britain may not feel the evils which may flow from so important a dismemberment of its empire, and that America may be a stranger to the calamities which have before now proved to the mother-country that monarchy is inseparable from the benefits of constitutional liberty.

Among the lands beyond the ocean America was the first reached and the most important.

America is Americans.

America will be the continent with the long purse, prepared to buy rather than sell.

"America is the stronghold of the popular principle, Europe of the despotic.

" "America is the protector of the family," said Jimmie, regarding me with a hostile eye.

Little "Nursing" America is the father of Young America that is to be.

Latin America is an immense job by itself, and we have some real responsibility there; a sort of Christian Monroe Doctrine.

"America for Americans," was the cry.

55 Metaphors for  americas