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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... King, Jr. Others may be less familiar. Together, they illustrate the spiritual history of a nation. Non-Americans may appreciate the nation's unique foundation more clearly than Americans themselves do. It was an English author, G. K. ...
... its moral promise. A century later—forty years ago—within sight of the memorials dedicated to Jefferson and Lincoln, in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired a new generation of American citizens when he said, “I.
... King, and many others, America is a union of faith and freedom, in which faith elevates freedom and freedom tempers faith. The American Creed doesn't impose parochial faith upon its citizens but protects freedom, including freedom of ...
... King, Jr., holiday we lift up a martyr's dream that one day its promise might be fulfilled. And on Thanksgiving—the quintessential American holiday—we look back to Plymouth Plantation. Thankful for family, the bounty of the earth, and ...
... King James,” did something on their own for which no other group in England would have mustered the gumption. They determined “solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, [to] covenant and combine ourselves together ...
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 | |