Essential Quotes by Document

• Proclamation of 1763
  
• Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress
  
• Quartering Act
  
• Boston Non-Importation Agreement
  
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
  
• Intolerable Acts
  
• Proclamation by the King for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
  
• Patrick Henry's “Liberty or Death” Speech
  
• Virginia Declaration of Rights
  
• Declaration of Independence
  
• Common Sense
  
• Articles of Confederation
  
• Treaty of Fort Pitt
  
• Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
  
• James Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments
  
• Northwest Ordinance
  
• Federalist Papers 10, 14, and 51
  
• Constitution of the United States
  
• George Washington's First Inaugural Address
  
• George Washington's First Annual Message to Congress
  
• Jefferson's and Hamilton's Opinions on the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
  
• Bill of Rights
  
• George Washington's Farewell Address
  
• Alien and Sedition Acts
  
• Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
  
• Thomas Jefferson's Message to Congress about the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  
• Marbury v. Madison
  
• Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
  
• Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
  
• McCulloch v. Maryland
  
• Missouri Compromise
  
• Monroe Doctrine
  
• Gibbons v. Ogden
  
• Andrew Jackson: On Indian Removal
  
• William Lloyd Garrison's First Liberator Editorial
  
• Andrew Jackson's Veto Message Regarding the Second Bank of the United States
  
• South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification and Andrew Jackson's Proclamation regarding Nullification
  
• Joint Resolution of Congress for the Annexation of Texas
  
• Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments
  
• Compromise of 1850
  
• Frederick Douglass's “Fourth of July” Speech
  
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
  
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
  
• Abraham Lincoln's “House Divided” Speech
  
• South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
  
• Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
  
• Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address to the Confederacy
  
• Morrill Act
  
• Homestead Act
  
• Emancipation Proclamation
  
• Gettysburg Address
  
• War Department General Order 143
  
• Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
  
• Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
  
• Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  
• Black Code of Mississippi
  
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
  
• Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  
• Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
  
• Treaty of Fort Laramie
  
• Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  
• Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park
  
• Rutherford B. Hayes's Inaugural Address
  
• Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Incandescent Light Bulb
  
• Chinese Exclusion Act
  
• Pendleton Civil Service Act
  
• Dawes Severalty Act
  
• Interstate Commerce Act
  
• Sherman Antitrust Act
  
• Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address
  
• William Jennings Bryan's “Cross of Gold” Speech
  
• Plessy v. Ferguson
  
• William McKinley's Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
  
• The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell
  
• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  
• Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles
  
• Muller v. Oregon
  
• Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  
• Woodrow Wilson: Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany
  
• Zimmermann Telegram
  
• Hammer v. Dagenhart
  
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
  
• Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
  
• National Industrial Recovery Act
  
• Tennessee Valley Authority Act
  
• National Labor Relations Act
  
• Social Security Act
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden
  
• United States v. Curtiss-Wright
  
• Executive Order 8802
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Message to Congress
  
• Lend-Lease Act
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Pearl Harbor” Speech
  
• Executive Order 9066
  
• Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day
  
• Servicemen's Readjustment Act
  
• Taft-Hartley Act
  
• Truman Doctrine
  
• Marshall Plan
  
• Executive Order 9981
  
• Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel
  
• Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer
  
• Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
  
• Brown v. Board of Education
  
• Federal-Aid Highway Act
  
• Southern Manifesto
  
• Executive Order 10730
  
• Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address
  
• John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
  
• Executive Order 10924
  
• John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” Speech
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
  
• John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address
  
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
  
• Voting Rights Act
  
• Miranda v. Arizona
  
• Kerner Commission Report Summary
  
• Richard Nixon's Smoking Gun Tape
  
• Equal Rights Amendment
  
• Roe v. Wade
  
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
  
• Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” Speech
  
• César Chávez's Commonwealth Address
  
• George H. W. Bush's Address to Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis
  
• Bill Clinton's Radio Address on the Welfare Reform Act
  
• Articles of Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton
  
• Bush v. Gore
  
• George W. Bush's Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001
  
• Bybee Torture Memo
  
• Lawrence v. Texas