Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Day One: “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death,” by Patrick Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Day Two: The Star-Spangled Banner . . . . . . . . . 7

Day Three: The Declaration of Independence . . . . 11

Day Four: President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Day Five: Benjamin Franklin’s Speech before the Constitutional Convention . . . . . . . . 21

Day Six: The Truman Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . 25

Day Seven: Federalist No. 10, Part One . . . . . . . 31

Day Eight: Federalist No. 10, Part Two . . . . . . . . 37

Day Nine: ‘I have a dream,’ by Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Day Ten: Federalist No. 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Day Eleven: President Woodrow Wilson’s ‘Fourteen Points’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Day Twelve: The United States Constitution, Part One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Day Thirteen: The United States Constitution, Part Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Day Fourteen: The Gettysburg Address . . . . . . . . . 75

    The Emancipation Proclamation . . . . . 77

Day Fifteen: The Bill of Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Day Sixteen: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” by Frederick Douglass . . . . 87

Day Seventeen: President George Washington’s Farewell Address, Part One . . . . . . . . 93

Day Eighteen: President George Washington’s Farewell Address, Part Two . . . . . . . . 99

Day Nineteen: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Infamy Speech” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

                    General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Order of the Day” . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Day Twenty: A Letter from Paul Revere to Corresponding Secretary, Jeremy Belknap . . . . . . . . 113

Day Twenty-One: Brown v. Board of Education . . . . . . . . 119

Day Twenty-Two: The Monroe Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . 125

Day Twenty-Three: Marbury v. Madison . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Day Twenty-Four: President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address . . . . . . . . 135

Day Twenty-Five: President Andrew Jackson’s Farewell Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Day Twenty-Six: President Ronald Reagan’s Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day . . . . . 147

Day Twenty-Seven: McCulloch v. Maryland . . . . . . . . . . 153

Day Twenty-Eight: “The Strenuous Life,” by Theodore Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . 159

Day Twenty-Nine: Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Day Thirty: Quotations about America . . . . . . . . 171

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181