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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... liberty 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.
... alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. —Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address PREAMBLE WHEN THE FOUNDERS GATHERED ONE WILTINGLY HOT JULY IN.
... liberty for all, because we are all endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights. America's fidelity to this creed is judged by history. Living up to it remains a constant challenge. But it invests our nation with spiritual ...
... liberty. From the very outset—even in documents that spring from a different set of primary intentions—one can trace the beginnings of what came to be established as the American Creed. From 1620 onward, faith has invested the freedom ...
... liberty naturally suggests (and, to a degree, mandates) its correlate, civil liberty. If the Puritans failed to make these connections themselves, their primary commitments to congregational polity and their own religious liberty ...
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 | |