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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A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer Forrest Church. To my children, Frank, Nina, Jacob, and Nathan, with love and hope I have often inquired of myself what great principle or.
... not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. —Abraham Lincoln, Extemporaneous Address in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861 Table of Contents Title Page Epigraph PREAMBLE 1 - “A.
... hope. He read American history as “the gradual realization of the American Creed.” The nation's greatest leaders have viewed American history in the same light. Abraham Lincoln saw the Declaration of Independence as “spiritually ...
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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 | |