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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... 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.
... 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 more transcendent symbolism. To the committee (as Adams reported ...
... later, as a home to aboriginal peoples scattered in pockets around the globe, the world was a forbidding garden. Slowly, this garden was cultivated. With cultivation came civilization; city-states became nations; nations, empires. Where ...
... later and set the tone for New England society) felt no such compunction. Yet they too laid the foundation for the American Creed. Congregational polity—a priesthood of all believers—leads directly to the idea of democratic government ...
... later made. 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 ...
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 | |