United States
The official currency of the United States is the United States dollar (USD). The motifs used are:
| Denomination | Obverse | Description | Reverse |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 1 | George Washington | First President | Great Seal of the United States |
| USD 2 | Thomas Jefferson | Third President | Declaration of Independence |
| USD 5 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President | Lincoln Memorial |
| USD 10 | Alexander Hamilton | First Secretary of the Treasury | Treasury Building |
| USD 20 | Andrew Jackson | Seventh President | White House |
| USD 50 | Ulysses S. Grant | 18th President | Capitol |
| USD 100 | Benjamin Franklin | Founding Father | Independence Hall |
Read more about this topic: List Of Motifs On Banknotes
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“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac ... and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The veto is a President’s Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a check against irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty of speech and thought, we could probably get it—Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States—but do we want it? In these years we will see.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. A Galileo could no more be elected President of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of soft illusion.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”
—Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)