The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic PrimerWhat makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident." From the earliest days, the survival of the new republic hinged not merely upon the expression of these grand principles of liberty and equality but upon their spiritual underpinnings. Freedom and faith were intertwined. America, as a foreign observer once put it, is a nation with the soul of a church. |
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... colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. —Abraham Lincoln, Extemporaneous Address in ...
... Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.” Noting the contrast between this compact and the ... Colony was far from being a perfect democracy, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony made no pretense to being one. Though ...
... Colony acted freely, despite the royal imprimatur of their charter. By so doing they sounded the keynote of American democracy. To cast this point in language that the Pilgrims themselves would have understood, America is founded on the ...
... Colony and leader of the party that arrived in Salem Harbor on eleven ships in 1630, delivered a sermon onboard the flagship Arbella shortly before its passengers disembarked to found the city of Boston. Winthrop was a Christian ...
... colonies. And, by the close of the seventeenth century, with the introduction of the Quaker faith, William Penn and others had brought a Christianity infused with the spirit of democracy to Pennsylvania. But it was the Pilgrims (despite ...
Contents
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS | |
A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM | |
E Pluribus Unum | |
AMERICAS MISSION | |
AMERICAN FUNDAMENTAL | |
THE FOUR FREEDOMS | |
NEW FRONTIERS OLD TRUTHS | |
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | |
CONCLUSION | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |