Week 1
"Consider that we shall be as a City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us."
A Model of Christian Charity (Winthrop)
"Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king."
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
"Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world."
What is an American? (Crevecoeur)
"The mother forms the character of the future man....the wife sways the heart, whose energies may turn for good or for evil the destinies of a nation."
A Treatise on Domestic Economy (Catharine Beecher)
"God Almighty in His most holy and wise providence hath so disposed of the condition of mankind as in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in others mean and in subjection."
A Model of Christian Charity (Winthrop)
"Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interest; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens."
Federalist No.10 (James Madison)
"When an individual or a party is wronged in the United States, to whom can he apply for redress? If to public opinion, public opinion constitutes the majority."
Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville)
"Is the needle and the kitchen sufficient to employ the operations of a soul thus organized? I should conceive not."
On the Equality of the Sexes (Judith Murray)
"When we were come, Oh the number of pagans (now merciless enemies) that there came about me, that I may say as David, "I had fainted, unless I had believed, etc." (Psalm 27.13). The next day was the Sabbath. I then remembered how careless I had been of God's holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God's sight"
Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
"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."
Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward women, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her."
Declaration of Sentiments (Elizabeth Stanton)
"History furnishes no example of a free republic, anything like the extent of the United States."
Anti-Federalist Paper No.1 (Brutus)