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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... promise and set the measure for its fulfillment. This new nation was, as the founders knew, an 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 ...
... promise with almost unimaginable poignancy in his Gettysburg Address. Praying for the rebirth of freedom, his language is biblical in cadence and theme. It is also thoroughly American. Through the sacrifices of its citizens and at the ...
... promise—the future of the world. To live up to the promise of our creed, we must rekindle aspirations for its attainment. To such an end I offer this biography of the Declaration of Independence. 1 “A CITY ON A HILL” “In the beginning all.
... 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 our cherished freedoms, we join in prayer at the table of our ...
... promise all due submission and obedience.” Noting the contrast between this compact and the laws of the old country, Tocqueville exclaimed in wonder, “A democracy more perfect than antiquity had dared to dream of started in full size ...
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 | |