Index of Authors

Author	Date	Attribution
Buck, Pearl S.	1943	What America Means to Me, ch. 4
Burke, Edmund	1790	Reflections on the Revolution in France. This was written immediately after the French Revolution. Burke questions the motives of the revolutionaries and warns against pulling down all that is good in society, along with the bad.
Carter, James Earl , Jr.	Nov. 9, 1978	To the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City
Clinton, Bill	Jan. 21, 1993	First Inaugural Address
Debs, Eugene Victor	April, 1890	"What Can We Do for Working People?" April, 1890, Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	Jan. 21, 1957	Second Inaugural Address - The Price of Peace
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	Aug. 31, 1959	Radio and television broadcast with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, London
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	1945	“Notebook E,” The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
Ford, Gerald R.	Aug. 12, 1974	Remarks to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.
Franklin, Benjamin	July 27, 1783	A letter to the botanist Sir Joseph Banks.
	1776	Attributed to Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
	July 27, 1783	Letter to the botanist Sir Joseph Banks. Complete Works, vol. 8, ed. John Bigelow. A slightly altered version of this quotation is inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
	Nov. 13, 1789	Letter, written Nov. 13, 1789. Complete Works, vol. 10, ed. John Bigelow.
	Aug. 9, 1768	Complete Works, vol. 4, ed. John Bigelow.
Hale, Nathan	Sep. 22, 1776	Nathan Hale's last words before being hanged by the British as a spy.
Henry, Patrick	March 23, 1775	Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention in Richmond. William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, 9th ed., pp. 141-42.
Humphrey, Hubert H., Jr.	Oct. 29, 1964	Speech given at New York City, NY
Jefferson, Thomas	Jan. 28, 1786	Letter to James Currie. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 9, p. 239, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950)
	Jan. 6, 1816	Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 10, p. 4 (1899)
		“The Declaration of Independence,” The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 1, pp. 429, 432 (1950)
		An except from the inscription on the northeast quadrant of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C., selected by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission, from several writings of Jefferson’s.
	March 31, 1809	Letter to the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. H. A. Washington, vol. 8, p. 165 (1871)
	Sept. 28, 1820	Letter to William Charles Jarvis—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 10, p. 161 (1899)
		In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
	June 18, 1799	Letter to William Green Mumford—Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, p. 616 (1970)
	Dec. 23, 1791	Letter to Archibald Stuart, —The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 5, p. 409 (1895).
	April 24, 1816	Letter to P. S. du Pont de Nemours—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 10, p. 25 (1899) This sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol.
	Jan. 8, 1789	Letter to Richard Price—The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 14, p. 420 (1958)
	1787	Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 17, p. 159, ed. William Peden (1954).
		When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
	Aug. 1, 1816	Letter to John Adams. The Adams--Jefferson Letters, vol. 2, p. 484, ed. Lester J. Cappon (1959).
	Sept. 23, 1800	Letter to Benjamin Rush—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 10, p. 175 (1903).
		Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
		Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
		Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
		Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
	1798	From the fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 305 (1896)
		Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
	Jan. 16, 1787	Letter to Edward Carrington—The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 11, p. 49 (1955)
Jones, John Paul	Sep. 23, 1779	Reply to the British ship Serapis.
Lincoln, Abraham	June 16, 1858	Speech delivered at the close of the Republican state convention, which named him the candidate for the United States Senate, Springfield, Illinois.
MacArthur, Douglas	May 3, 1948	Title of speech to the people of Japan upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution.
Kennedy, John F.	Jan. 20,1961	Inaugural address. This is one of seven inscriptions carved on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy, Arlington National Cemetery.
	Oct. 22,1962	Address to the nation announcing the blockade of Cuba to stop delivery of Soviet missiles.
	1956	Profiles in Courage, p. 246
	Jan. 20, 1961	Inaugural Address
King, Martin Luther, Jr.	Aug. 28, 1963	“I Have a Dream,” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
	April 16, 1963	Open letter to clergymen, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Why We Can’t Wait
	1967	Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, pp. 62–63
	Aug. 28, 1963	Speech, at civil rights march, Washington, DC. “I Have a Dream” King was quoting the Hebrew Bible, Amos 5:24
	Nov. 13, 1962	Wall Street Journal
	Dec. 31, 1963	On blacks in America, address at Birmingham AL, news summaries.
	1963	“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Why We Can’t Wait
	1963	Strength to Love, ch. 4, sct. 3
Lazarus, Emma	1883	“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, Selection from Her Poetry and Prose, ed. Morris U. Schappes, pp. 40–41
Morgan, Robin	1970	Sisterhood Is Powerful, introduction
Morgan, Robin	1970	Sisterhood Is Powerful, introduction
Paine, Thomas	1777	Common Sense, written as part of a series of pamphlets and entitled The American Crisis IV and signed Common Sense.
Penn, William	1909-14	Fruits of Solitude, part one
Reagan, Ronald	June 29, 1980	Quoted in "Observer" London.
Reagan, Ronald		No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	March 4, 1933	Inaugural Address
	May 26, 1940	Fireside chat on national defense
	January 6, 1941	State of the Union message to the Congress
Roosevelt, Theodore	1926	“Lincoln and Free Speech,” The Great Adventure
Washington, George	March 15, 1783	Address to the officers of the army, Newburgh, New York.
Wilson, Woodrow	April 6, 1912	Speech, Chicago, Illinois
	May 10, 1915	Speech, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	Jan. 29, 1916	Speech, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Sept. 8, 1919	Address supporting the League of Nations, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.