The Patriotic Thinker Author:Various The United States is the only country founded upon an idea—and it is that idea, and its evolution throughout American history, which this non-partisan and secular collection aspires to preserve. The Patriotic Thinker presents the most vital writings on American thought, framed in the context of a simple idea: that in America it is patriotic to... more » think, to question, to be informed.
Highlights include:
• Declaration of Independence, 1776
• Bill of Rights
• Constitutional amendments
• Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” 1776
• Letters/essays from Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Franklin
• Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 1863
• Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
• Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”
• Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” (1883), engraved on the Statue of Liberty