Constitution of the Confederate States

The Monroe Doctrine

The Origin of Memorial Day

The Dream - Author Unknown

Letter to a Wall - by Racheline Maltese

The Highwayman - by Alfred Noyes

Paul Reveres Ride - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Betsy's Battle-Flag - by Minna Irving

Hail, Columbia - by Joseph Hopkinson

Atlantic Charter: 1942 - by Frances Brett Young

Centennial Hymn - by John Greenleaf Whittier

O Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean - Author Unknown

The Wall - by Annmarie B. Tait

Liberty Tree - by Thomas Paine

Lafayette to Washington from Valley Forge - by Maxwell Anderson

No Land Like Ours - by J. R. Barrick

When Johnny Comes Marching Home - by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore

The Yankee's Return from Camp - by Edward Bangs

November 1918 - by Joseph Mills Hanson

Old Ironsides - by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our National Banner - July 4, 1876 - by Dexter Smith

Independence Bell - July 4, 1776 - Author Unknown

One Country - by Frank L. Stanton

I Am the Flag - by Lawrence M. Jones

Our Flag - by Mark Twain

The Unknown Soldier - by Billy Rose

How Shall We Honor Them? - Author Unknown

America's Answer - In Flanders Field - by R. W. Lilliard

In Flanders Field -by Lieut. Col. John McCrae

Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour - by George Washington

The Village Blacksmith - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - by Henry David Thoreau

Columbus - by Joaquin Miller

Not Alone for Mighty Empire - by William Pierce Merrill

The Flower of Liberty - by Oliver Wendell Holmes

America for Me - by Henry Van Dyke

God Save the Flag - by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Blue and the Gray - by Francis Miles Finch

Declaration of Independence

United States Constitution

Quotes from Our Founding Fathers

He Rode into History - by Ester Forbes

Thanksgiving Proclamation - by Wilbur L. Cross

The Mayflower Compact

America - by Samual F. Smith

A Signer Declares - by John Witherspoon

A Congressman's Prayer - by John Quincy Adams

Unquenchable Faith - by Catherine Drinker Bowen

State Mottoes

Examples of Devotion - by Simon Edelstein

The American's Creed - by William Tyler Page

Oath of Naturalized Citizen

from The Emancipation Proclamation - by Abraham Lincoln

Ballad of the Common Man - by Alfred Kreymborg

Heroes of Faith - by Edgar De Witt Jones

from Watch, America - by Robert Nathan

America - by Abba Hillel Silver

Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers - by Felicia Dorothea Fathers

Alter at Valley Forge - by Albert J. Beveridge

Message to the United Nations - by Henry Cabot Lodge

He Lost a War and Won Immortality - by Louis Redmond

Presidential Oath

Recollections of the Boston Tea Party - by George R. T. Hewes

Report on the Minute Men - by Lieutenant Colonel Smith

Nathan Hale - by William Ordway Partridge

West Point Cadets Prayer - by Clayton Wheat

Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia - by Robert E. Lee

The Character of Lee - by John Williams Jones

Robert E. Lee - by Stephen Vincent Benet

Beyond the Horizon - by Thomas M. Wolfe

from The Alamo - by William Barret Travis

American Self-Reliance - by J. Ollie Edmunds

The Flag Goes By - by Henry Holcomb Bennett

from The Devil and Danial Webster - by Stephen Vincent Benet

Our National Anthem - by Francis Scott Key

An Iowa Christmas - by Paul Engle

The American Flag - by Joseph Rodman Drake

A New Wind a Blowin' - by Langston Hughes

Message to Young America - by Hermann Hacedorn

Young George Washington - by Parson Weems

Prayer of a Beginning Teacher - by Ouida Smith Dunnam

Danial Boone - by Arthur Cuiterman

The Old Flag - by H.C. Bunner

Wanted - by Josiah Gilbert Holland

The Republic - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lewis and Clark - by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet

I am the Flag - by Ruth Apperson Rous

Sharon Statement - Young Americans for Freedom

I am an American - by Elias Lieberman

The Day the Bells Rang - July 4th 1776

My Sacred Ballot - by Ralph Bushnell Potts

The American Boy - by Theodore Roosevelt

Farewell to His Armies - by George Washington

American Farmers - by Wheeler McMillen

Eyes of Granite - by Ralph W. Seager

Memorial Day in Maine - by Mary Ellen Chase

Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush - by Thomas Jefferson

By An Act Of Congress - April 4, 1818

A Committee of Congress Visits Betsy Ross - by George Canby

Purpose - by Lawrence H. Smith

Fiftieth Anniversary - by Andrew Jackson

Patriotic Obligation - by Grover Cleveland

We Call Him Father - by Wilfred A. Peterson

Letter to Martha - by George Washington

Reflections on Gettysburg - by Bruce Catton

"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" - by Patrick Henry

American Self-Reliance - by J. Ollie Edmunds

The First Prayer in Congress - held in Carpenters Hall

The Constitution for the United States of America

D-Day Order - June 6, 1944 - by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Battle Hymm of the Republic - by Julia Ward Howe

Challenge to the Boston Youth - by Edward Everett Hale

First Thanksgiving of All - by Nancy Byrd Turner

Letter to Mrs. Bixby - by Abraham Lincoln

The Gettysburg Address - by Abraham Lincoln

The Fiftieth Anniversary - by Thomas Jefferson

The Fourth of July - by John Pierpont

Religion in American Life - by Deane Edwards

From When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - by Walt Whitman

At Lincolns Tomb - by Everett McKinley Dirksen

America's Message - by Raymond Pitcairn

Letter from a Navy Pilot - Battle of Midway - Anonymous

An American Without Reserve - by Daniel Webster

Flag Day

Unfinished Task - by Everett McKinley Dirksen

Hawthorne Visits the White House - by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Daniel Webster Speaks at Bunker Hill - by Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Concord Hymm - by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last Words to Her Fourteen-Year-Old Son - by Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson - Mother of Andrew Jackson

America's Schoolmaster - by Richard L. Doyle

The McGuffey Readers - by Walter Havighurst

No New Thing - by Homer Hoch

The Hands of Lincoln - by Philip Jerome Cleveland

Parable - by Edgar F. Magnin

Clipper Ships and Captains - by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet

The Name of Washington - by Arthur Gordon Field

Portrait - by John Francis Mercer

At Mount Vernon - by Thomas Clark

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - by Leila Pier King

Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary Soldier

Town Bells - by Eric Sloane

The Marines Song

Rights and Duties - by Calvin Coolidge

Map of My Country - by Allen E. Woodall

Stand by the Flag - by John Nichols Wilder

National Symbol - by Charles Evans Hughes

From Reply to Hayne - by Daniel Webster

Creed - by Hal Borland

Proclamation for Thanksgiving - by Abraham Lincoln

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms - July 6, 1775

From The Life of Colonel David Crockett - by Edward S. Ellis

Boston Hymn - by Ralph Waldo Emerson

America Befriend - by Henry Van Dyke

Shine, Republic - by Robinson Jeffers

The American Flag - by Joseph Rodman Drake

The Kansas Emigrants - by John Greenleaf Whittier

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England - by Felicia D. Hemans

Articles of Confederation - March 1, 1781

We Must Take America Back! - by Steve Vaus

A Visitor from the Past - by Thelen Paulk

The Star-Spangled Banner - by Francis Scott Key

Lift Every Voice and Sing - by James W. Johnson

The Law - Part I - by Frederic Bastiat

The Law - Part II - by Frederic Bastiat

The Law - Part III - by Frederic Bastiat

I Am the South - by Louise Weeks

The Price They Paid - Author Unknown

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of 1789 - President George Washington

Letter to Horace Greeley - President Abraham Lincoln

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