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Here are the documents:
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
appearance of being right."
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The War Inevitable.
A speech by Patrick Henry, commonly called the
"give me liberty or give me death" speach.
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The Declaration of Independence.
"When in the Course of human events..."
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The Constitution of the United States
of America.
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The Federalist Papers.
"After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting
federal government, you are called upon to
deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America."
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George Washington's Farewell Address,
1796. "The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the
executive government of the United States, being not far distant..."
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The Monroe Doctrine.
"...the American continents, by the free and independent condition which
they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as
subjects for future colonization by any European powers."
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Lincoln's First Inaugural Address.
"I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution,
the Union of these States is perpetual."
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Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who
shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do
all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations."
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The Gettysburg address &
Emancipation Proclamation.
"Four score and seven years ago our..."
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Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points.
"We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which
touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people
impossible..."
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Four Freedoms.
"I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment
unprecedented in the history of the union."
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Infamy Speach.
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -
a date which will live in infamy..."
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Declaration of War with Japan. Joint resolution
of Congress declaring that a state of war exists between the
Imperial Government of Japan and the Government and the People
of the United States.
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Barry Goldwater's Nomination Acceptance Speach.
"I would remind you that extremism in the
defense of liberty is no vice. And let me
remind you also that moderation in the
pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire Speach. Given to
the British House of Commons June 8, 1982. "Regimes planted by bayonets
do not take root."
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Presidential Order of Succession
Succession to the Office of the President of the
United States of America.
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