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Emancipation Proclamation

"All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..."

Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure."

Common Sense

"Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices"

Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

"We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."

Declaration of Sentiments

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Monroe Doctrine

"With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere."

Dred Scott Ruling

And if anything in relation to the construction of the Constitution can be regarded as settled, it is ... the word 'citizen' and the word 'people.'

Mayflower Compact

For the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith. ...

Bill of Rights

The first ten amendments to the Constitution

Washington's Farewell Address

The great rule of conduct ... in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

Articles of Confederation

The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare.

Andrew Jackson Bank veto

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.