The Bicentennial of the United States of America: A Final Report to the People, Volum 1

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Side 2 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Side 12 - O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America ! America ! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Side 15 - ... The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Side 8 - Heaven itself has ordained, and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Side 145 - I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Side 194 - What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
Side 33 - The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. lt is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. lt is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Side 173 - In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

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