THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE STATES
THE DATE EACH STATE ENTERED THE UNION
STATE MOTTOS
STATE NICKNAMES
NAMES FOR THE CITIZENS OF EACH STATE (i.e. WISCONSINITES)
THE BILL OF RIGHTS & 7 OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS
ALL PRESIDENTS
ALL FIRST LADIES
ALL VICE PRESIDENTS
ALL CHIEF JUSTICES
ABOLITIONISTS
WOMEN’S RIGHTS LEADERS
1960s CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
NAMES AND DATES OF ALL MAJOR U.S. WARS
WAR HEROES
EXCERPTS FROM AMERICAN SONGS & POEMS
APPROXIMATELY 1,282 NAMES
176 OF THEM QUOTED AND/OR REFERENCED
234 QUOTES AND REFERENCES FOR THE 176 NAMES
ALSO 8 ANONYMOUS/UNKNOWN ADAGES & QUOTES
ALSO 3 MORE GROUP QUOTES
APPROXIMATELY 617 WORDS (i.e. U.S. NAVY or PLEDGE
OF ALLEGIANCE)
17 OF THEM QUOTED
WORDS FOR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY IN OVER 60
LANGUAGES
ADDRESSES & SPEECHES
Address, 1915
Address at City Hall, West Berlin, Jun 26, 1963
Address at the University of California, Berkeley, Mar 23, 1962
address, Author’s Guild, Dec 3, 1952
“The American Idea,” speech, May 29, 1850
Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, speech, Jun 12, 1987
Broadcast on D-Day, Jun 6, 1944
Defense of John Peter Zenger, 1735
Farewell Address, “To the People of the United States,”
Sep 17, 1796
Farewell Address, Jan 14, 1981
First Inaugural Address, Apr 30, 1789
First Inaugural Address, Mar 4, 1801
First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Gettysburg Address, Nov 19, 1863
“I Have a Dream,” speech, Aug 28, 1963
Inaugural Address, Mar 4, 1925
Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961
Inaugural address, Jan 20, 1989
Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 2009
Last public address, Apr 11, 1865
Liberty Medical acceptance speech, Jul 4, 1992
“Liberty or Death” speech, Mar 23, 1775
Message to Congress, Jan 6, 1941
Message to Congress in Special Session, Jul 4, 1861
Notes for an Oration at Braintree, Massachusetts, Spring 1772
“On Being a Good Neighbor,” sermon, 1956
radio broadcast to 4-H Clubs, Nov 7, 1931
“The Rights of the Colonists,” 1772
Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1997
“Slavery and the Rebellion,” speech, Nov 5, 1864
Speech, Mar 15, 1837
Speech, Albany, New York, Jun 27, 1933
speech at Boston Commons, Aug 27, 1862
Speech, Bloomington, Illinois, May 19, 1856
Speech, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1933
State of the Union Address, Jan 16, 1984
televised speech on behalf of the John F. Kennedy Library,
May 29, 1964
“To the People of the United States,” address, 1789
(Henry Cabot Lodge)
(John F. Kennedy)
(John F. Kennedy)
(William O. Douglas)
(Theodore Parker)
(Ronald Reagan)
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
(Andrew Hamilton)
(George Washington)
(Jimmy Carter)
(George Washington)
(Thomas Jefferson)
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
(Abraham Lincoln)
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
(Calvin Coolidge)
(John F. Kennedy)
(George H. W. Bush)
(Barack Obama)
(Abraham Lincoln)
(Thurgood Marshall)
(Patrick Henry)
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
(Abraham Lincoln)
(John Adams)
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
(Lou Henry Hoover)
(Samuel Adams)
(Abraham Lincoln)
(Bill Clinton)
(Charles Sumner)
(Daniel Webster)
(Alfred E. Smith)
(Robert Charles Winthrop)
(Abraham Lincoln)
(Jane Addams)
(Ronald Reagan)
(Jacqueline Kennedy)
(Benjamin Rush)
ALMANACKS & JOURNALS
Freedom’s Journal, 1827
on his purpose for keeping a journal,
Journal of the Federal Convention
The Liberator, Jan 1, 1831 (first issue)
The Liberator, Nov 19, 1841
Poor Richard’s Almanack
(Samuel Cornish & John Russwurm)
(James Madison)
(William Lloyd Garrison)
(Charles Lenox Remond)
(Benjamin Franklin)
BATTLE CRIES
Battle cry, 1864
Battle cry, San Jacinto, Apr 21, 1836
(African American soldiers)
(Sidney Sherman)
BILLS & RESOLUTIONS
Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, 1778
(Thomas Jefferson)
Kentucky Resolutions, 1798
(Thomas Jefferson)
The Lee-Adams Resolution of Independence – Jul 2, 1776 (Richard Henry Lee & John Adams)
Remonstrances Against Religious Assessments (Dec. 24, 1784) (James Madison)
Virginia Bill of Rights – Jun 12, 1776
Virginia Resolutions (1798)
(James Madison)
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
(Thomas Jefferson)
BOOKS, ESSAYS & OTHER WRITINGS
The American Crisis, no. 1, Dec 23, 1776
The American Crisis, no. 4, Sep 12, 1777
The American Standard, 1896
The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody, 1652
Brown v. Board of Education - 1954
Capitalism and Freedom, 1962
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, 1946, ch. 1
Common Sense, 1776
Defense of the Constitution, 1787
Etiquette of the Stars and Stripes, 1934
The Federalist, 1787, No. 10
The Federalist, 1787-88
The Federalist, 1788, No. 51
“The Farmer Refuted,” Feb., 1775
“Free Minds and Hearts at Work”
in Edward R. Murrow’s This I Believe, 1952
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent, 1954
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
in Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1956
Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967
‘Limitations of Government’
My American Journey, 1995
Narrative and Book of Life, 1881
The National Flag, 1861
Nieman Reports, summer issue, 1976
“Novanglus” papers, Boston Gazette, 1774, No. 7
Observations of the Boston Port Bill, May 1774
Of Plymouth Plantation [1620-1647], ch. 21
The Revolution, Mar 18, 1869
Teacher’s Manual, 1840
Twelfth Annual Report to the President of
Antioch College, 1848
Two Trains Running, 1990
(Thomas Paine)
(Thomas Paine)
(Booker T. Washington)
(Roger Williams)
(Milton Friedman)
(Ruth Benedict)
(Thomas Paine)
(John Adams)
(Veterans of Foreign Wars)
(James Madison)
(Alexander Hamilton)
(James Madison)
(Alexander Hamilton)
(Jackie Robinson)
(Henry Steele Commager)
(Benjamin Franklin)
(Erich Fromm)
(Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.)
(John Cotton)
(Colin Powell)
(Sojourner Truth)
(Henry Ward Beecher)
(John Loft Hess)
(John Adams)
(Josiah Quincy)
(William Bradford)
(Susan B. Anthony)
(Thomas H. Palmer)
(Horace Mann)
(August Wilson)
A Vindication of the Government of
New England Churches, 1717
Walden, 1854, 2, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Walden, 1854, 18, Conclusion
War As I Knew It, 1947, Appendix D. letter [Apr 3, 1944]
The Wit and Wisdom of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1968
Woodward Committee, Report on Free Speech, Jan 28, 1975
You Can Learn By Living, 1960
(John Wise)
(Henry David Thoreau)
(Henry David Thoreau)
(George S. Patton)
(Fulton J. Sheen)
(C. Vann Woodward)
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
CREEDS & PLEDGES
The American’s Creed, 1917
‘The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag’
The Sailor’s Creed
(William Tyler Page)
(Francis Bellamy and James B. Upham)
DECLARATIONS & PROCLAMATIONS
Charter of Liberties, 1701
Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of
Taking Up Arms—1775
Emancipation Proclamation, Jan 1, 1863
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Sep 22, 1862
(William Penn)
(Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton & others)
(Thomas Jefferson & John Dickinson)
(Abraham Lincoln)
(Abraham Lincoln)
DOCTRINES
The ‘Monroe Doctrine’
(James Monroe)
GENERAL ORDERS & IMPERATIVES
at Battle of Bunker Hill, Jun 17, 1775
at the battle of Mobile Bay, Aug 5, 1864
General Orders, Headquarters, New York, Jul 2, 1776
imperative to U.S. 8th Army troops
To Col. George M. Jones and 503rd Regimental Combat Team,
Mar 2, 1945
to General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Feb 16, 1862
to his Minute Men, prior to the Battle of Lexington,
Apr 19, 1775
(Israel Putnam)
(David G. Farragut)
(George Washington)
(Walton Walker)
(Douglas MacArthur)
(Ulysses S. Grant)
(Jonas Parker)
LETTERS
letter
letter to Annis Stockton Boudinot, Jan 15, 1794
letter to Col. William S. Smith, Paris, Nov 13, 1787
letter to Gerrit Smith, Mar 30, 1849
Letter to Henry L. Pierce and others, Apr 6, 1859
(Albert Einstein)
(Martha Washington)
(Thomas Jefferson)
(Frederick Douglass)
(Abraham Lincoln)
letter to her niece Mary Cutts, Aug 1, 1833
Letter to James Lloyd, Oct 1, 1822
Letter to John Adams, Jul 14, 1776
Letter to John Adams, Sep 12, 1821
letter to naval contractors, Oct 20, 1775
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, Feb 2, 1816
Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Jan 13, 1868
note to Nikita Khrushchev, 1961
(Dolley Madison)
(John Quincy Adams)
(Abigail Adams)
(Thomas Jefferson)
(Joseph Reed)
(John Adams)
(Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
(John F. Kennedy)
MOTTOS, SAYINGS & SLOGANS
c. 1962, slogan
1984, motto for her anti-drug campaign
Adage
Motto on Thomas Jefferson’s seal (c. 1776)
RODGER’S BATTLE FLAG, 1861
Saying
(The Big Red One)
(The Continental Colors)
(U.S. Army Service Forces)
(U.S. Marines)
(U.S. National motto)
(Vince Lombardi)
(Michael A. Monsoor)
(Thomas Paine)
(Dolores Huerta)
(Nancy Reagan)
(Yogi Berra)
(Thomas Jefferson)
(John Rodgers)
(Lyndon B. Johnson)
OTHER
1763, Attributed, watchword of the Revolution
1768
Apr 18, 1775
1837
Oct 31, 1997
Jul 7, 2006
after being severely wounded in WW II, 1944
after being shot during a campaign speech, 1912
Before the battle of Bennington, Aug 16, 1777
first words spoken on the moon, Jul 20, 1969
flag signal from Kennesaw Mountain, Oct 5, 1864
Flight 93, Sep 11, 2001
“Free America,” c. 1770
in Harper’s, Jun 1956
in Noyes, Views of Religion
in reference to the House of Representatives, 1787
Inscription on The Liberty Bell
INSCRIPTION ON THE SUPREME COURT BUILDING
interview, New York Times, Oct 29, 1973
interview, The New York Times, Feb 22, 1981
Mar 20, 1942, on reaching Australia
Of the Marines at Iwo Jima, Feb–May 1945
(James Otis)
(Silas Downer)
(Paul Revere)
(Abraham Lincoln)
(Hillary Clinton)
(George W. Bush)
(Ruben Rivers)
(Theodore Roosevelt)
(John Stark)
(Neil Armstrong)
(William Tecumseh Sherman)
(Todd Beamer)
(Joseph Warren)
(William Faulkner)
(Benjamin Rush)
(Alexander Hamilton)
(William O. Douglas)
(Barbara Bush)
(Douglas MacArthur)
(Chester Nimitz)
On receiving the degree of Doctor of Civil Law
from Oxford University, Jun 19, 1941
on signing the Declaration of Independence
on signing the Declaration of Independence
prior to his execution by the British for spying, Sep 22, 1776
Reply to the British commander, after the capture of
Fort Ticonderoga, early morn May 10, 1775
replying to the German demand to surrender
at Bastogne, Belgium, Dec 22, 1944
request to Congress, Jun 3, 1777
saluting a new American flag, Aug 10, 1831
shouted, Mar 25, 1945
Statement as public information officer for U.S. space
program [1959-1964]
To the General Committee of Tryon County, July 22, 1777
toast for reunion of soldiers from the Battle
of Bennington
INTRODUCTION TO U.S. RADIO SERIES, JUN 1938
when asked whether he had lowered his flag, Sep 23, 1779
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
(Benjamin Franklin)
(John Hancock)
(Nathan Hale)
(Ethan Allen)
(Anthony McAuliffe)
(Thomas Green)
(William Driver)
(Men at Kuching in Borneo)
(John A. Powers)
(John Jay)
(John Stark)
(John Paul Jones)
POEMS & SONGS
Air Force Song
‘America,’ 1831
(Samuel F. Smith)
“America for Me,” 1909
(Henry Van Dyke)
‘America the Beautiful,’ summer, 1893
(Katharine Lee Bates)
The American Flag, 1819, st. 1
(Joseph Rodman Drake)
Barbara Frietchie, 1864, st. 18
(John Greenleaf Whittier)
“The Battle Cry of Freedom,’ 1862
(George Frederick Root)
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 1862
(Julia Ward Howe)
The Battlefield, 1839, st. 9
(William Cullen Bryant)
The Best Things in Life are Free
(Lew Brown & Buddy De Sylva)
Blow, Bugles, Blow
(John S. McGroarty)
Boston Hymn, st. 17
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
[December 20, 1860]
The Building of the Ship, 1849
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
“The Caisson Song,” 1908
(Edmund L. Grubor)
Concord Hymn
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Eagle and Me
(Edgar Harburg)
A Fable for Critics, 1848
(James Russell Lowell)
The Flag Goes By
(Henry Holcomb Bennett)
The Flag of Our Union, 1851
(George Pope Morris)
‘God Bless America,’ 1938 song
(Irving Berlin)
‘God Bless the U.S.A.’
(Lee Greenwood)
‘Hail, Columbia,’ c. 1798
(Joseph Hopkinson)
It Couldn’t Be Done
(Edgar A. Guest)
‘The Liberty Song,’ 1768
(John Dickinson)
“My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free,” Song, 1714, st. 1
(Thomas Parnell)
“The Navy Hymn (Eternal Father),” 1860
(William Whiting)
“The New Colossus” (1883)
(Emma Lazarus)
New England’s Chevy Chase [April 19, 1775]
(Edward Everett Hale)
Oh Freedom! (spiritual)
(Unknown author)
The Old Flag, st. 1
(Henry Cuyler Bunner)
‘Over There,’ 1917
(George M. Cohan)
“The Peacemaker,” Jun 14, 1918
(Joyce Kilmer)
poem
(John Quincy Adams)
Song of Freedom
(Florence A. Jones)
Song of the Open Road, 1
(Walt Whitman)
“Stanzas for the Times,” 1835
(John Greenleaf Whittier)
‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ Sep 14, 1814
(Francis Scott Key)
“The Stars and Stripes Forever,” 1897 march
(John Philip Sousa)
“Sympathy,” 1899
(Paul Lawrence Dunbar)
“Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,” 1863
(Walter Kittredge)
‘Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching’ (1862)
(George Frederick Root)
We Shall Not Be Moved (Spiritual)
(Unknown author)
“We Shall Overcome,” 1945
(Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy
Carawan, and Pete Seeger)
‘Yankee Doodle’
(Edward Bangs)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(George M. Cohan)
‘You’re a Grand Old Flag,’ 1906
(George M. Cohan)
SUPREME COURT CASES
Brown v. Board of Education - 1954
Cohens v. Virginia, 1821
Dennis et al. v. U.S., 1951, concurring opinion
Ex-Parte Milligan, 4 Wallace 2, 1866
Gideon v. Wainwright – 1963
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Miranda v. Arizona 1965
Olmstead v. U.S., 1928, dissent
Palko v. Connecticut, 1937, opinion
West Virginia State Board v. Barnette, 1943, opinion
(John Marshall)
(Felix Frankfurter)
(David Davis)
(John Marshall)
(Earl Warren)
(Louis D. Brandeis)
(Benjamin Cardozo)
(Robert H. Jackson)