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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... John Adams with the task of designing the Great Seal. Franklin later toyed with the motto. “Mind Your Business,” a double entendre that evoked the spirits of American commerce and American individualism. Here he and the others sought ...
... John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 49, 1 IN THE BEGINNING, WHEN GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH, ALL the world was a wilderness. This wilderness was populated first by ferns and then by animals. Hundreds of millions of years later ...
... John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay 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 ...
... John Robinson, having stayed behind in Leiden to tend the majority of his flock. Four years later, when the home church finally did dispatch a minister to the colonies, the congregation found him morally and theologically unsuitable and ...
... John Wilson, Winthrop described a service much freer in form than most Protestant services are today. On the Lord's day there was a sacrament, which they did partake in; and in the afternoon, Mr. Roger Williams propounded a question to ...
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 | |