The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... interest in what we already have . This is an age of disposable ideas , of politics - as- entertainment , of a popular culture that celebrates violence and sensationalism and that is made for the instant , not for the ages . In an age ...
... Interest , not of Reason . Teach your child to hold his tongue , he'll learn fast enough to speak . He that cannot obey , cannot command . The magistrate should obey the Laws , the People should obey the magistrate . He that waits upon ...
... interest ; for where those prevail , no ties of either country or kin- dred are regarded ; as , upon the other hand , the man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations , well knowing that without liberty life ...
... interest and trust , is insidiously betrayed , or wantonly trifled away , the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed , and to constitute abler and better agents , attorneys , and trustees . And the ...
... interest or happiness — and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty , peace , and goodwill to man ! Let the bar proclaim " the laws , the rights , the generous plan of power " delivered down from remote antiquity - inform ...