Description |
1 online resource (xv, 345 pages) |
Contents |
John Adams -- John Quincy Adams -- Samuel Adams -- Advice & Advisors -- Age & Aging -- Aggression -- Agriculture & Farming -- Alcohol, Alcoholism, & Drunkenness -- Ambition -- America & Americanism -- Anger -- Appearances & Vanity -- Argument & Debate -- Benedict Arnold -- Arts -- Attention & Neglect -- Bad Company -- Baltimore -- Banks & Banking -- Bigotry -- Bill of Rights -- Boston -- Botany & Gardening -- Bravery & Courage -- Aaron Burr -- Business & Trade -- Change -- Character -- Charity -- Children & Parenting -- Cities -- Civil Rights -- Compromise & Moderation -- Congress -- Connecticut -- Conscience -- Consistency -- Constitution -- Corruption & Bribery -- Crime & Punishment -- Cynicism -- Death -- Declaration of Independence -- Defamation & Personal Attacks -- Democracy & Republicanism -- Dependence -- Difficulties & Adversity -- Discipline -- Due Process -- Duty -- Economics -- Education -- Elections & Politics -- England (United Kingdom) -- Envy & Malice -- Equality & Equal Rights -- Error -- Excuses -- Expansion & Manifest Destiny -- Experience -- Facts & Opinions -- Faith -- Family -- First Settlers -- The Flag -- Flattery & Praise -- Force & Coercion -- Foreign Influence -- Foreign Relations & Policy -- France -- Benjamin Franklin -- Freedom -- Freedom of Speech & Press -- Friends & Friendship -- Future -- Abraham Alfonse Albert Galatin -- Gambling -- Geography |
Summary |
Contains a collection of twenty-five hundred quotations about the meaning of democracy from the men and women who created America and contains excerpts from their own essays diaries, letters, speeches, and sermons |
Notes |
Includes indexes |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Founding Fathers of the United States -- Quotations
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National characteristics, American -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Social values -- United States -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Quotations, American.
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Statesmen -- United States -- Quotations
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Presidents -- United States -- Quotations
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National characteristics, American
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Politics and government
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Presidents
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Quotations, American
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Social values
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Statesmen
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Subject |
United States
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Genre/Form |
Quotations
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Melton, Buckner F., Jr., 1962-
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ISBN |
9781435610347 |
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1435610342 |
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9781574886092 |
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1574886096 |
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