About This Book

Contents
The Magna Carta
The Mayflower Compact
The Declaration of Independence
Patrick Henry's Speech: "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"
Tom Paine's COMMON SENSE
Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
The Words of Chief Joseph
Abraham Lincoln's First Inagural Address
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
The Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King

An excerpt from the book

...If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian ... we can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike; give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man ...free to travel ... free to stop ... free to work ... free to choose my own teachers ... free to follow the religion of my Fathers ... free to think and talk and act for myself." Chief Joseph...