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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... true meaning of its creed.” As understood by Lincoln, King, and many others, America is a union of faith and freedom, in which faith elevates freedom and freedom tempers faith. The American Creed doesn't impose parochial faith upon its ...
... true that when the Pilgrims arrived on the shores of New England they sought religious freedom from one established religion with the stated intention of establishing a new one. Yet the logic that informed their own liberation led ...
... true. We pledge to walk together In the ways of truth and affection, As best we know them now Or may learn them in days to come, That we and our children may be fulfilled And that we may speak to the world In words and actions Of peace ...
... true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God—and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven, liberty, peace, and goodwill to man! —John Adams, “Essay on Feudal and Canon ...
... true, the Liberty Bell had to be cast three times—once to no one's satisfaction by a foundry in England, and twice more in America—until they finally set it right. The Liberty Bell is like our history. When they chose the wording to be ...
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 | |