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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... experiment. Like all experiments, it started with a precept, a “given”—in this case a set of truths so rock-ribbed and essential that they were deemed “self-evident.” Truth cast in language that, in turn, spells out the truth for ...
... experiment, the American Creed affirms those truths our founders held selfevident: justice for all, because we are all created equal; and, liberty for all, because we are all endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights ...
... dark on its western side, suggesting that the American experiment has just dawned. Drawn from Masonic symbolism familiar to the founders and expressive of Enlightenment religious values, this pyramid is uncapped, the foundation (crafted by.
... experiment” of Rhode Island, otherwise characterized by its religious detractors as Rogue Island or the sewer of New England. In the words of the historian George Bancroft, Williams was “the first person in modern Christendom to ...
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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 | |