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Started by Bundt Pan, October 06, 2025, 11:12:02 AM

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Bundt Pan

October 06, 2025, 11:12:02 AM
If you had to select/preserve/identify (pick your verb) your top 5 historic documents tied to American Independence and our formative ideas what would they be? 

Or rephrased, what 5 documents/letters/etc, would you choose to best show our founding fathers thoughts on liberty and freedom?

Example:

1. Declaration of Independence
2. Constitution
3. Federalist 52
4. The Rights of Man
5. Samual Adams, On American Independence

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No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 1st Draft of the VA Constitution by T. Jefferson

Mrs. Smith

#1
October 06, 2025, 10:35:01 PM
Patrick Henry's address to the Virginia house of burgesses should be on that list somewhere.
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher

You can have peace, or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein

"A generation which ignores history has no past, and no future." - Lazarus Long

"What we do now echoes in eternity." Marcus Aurelius

Virch

#2
October 14, 2025, 11:12:44 AM
Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

scuzzy

#3
October 14, 2025, 12:31:56 PM
The collection of the Anti-Federalist Papers.

They predicted what would happen with a strong central government. And they were right.
My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.

LadyRimfire

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October 14, 2025, 01:26:11 PM
Nikki
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Rifleman - Dunbarton, NH 10/20/24
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
~Thomas Paine
"Those people who are not governed by GOD will be ruled by tyrants."
~William Penn
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
~John Adams

Roswell

#5
October 14, 2025, 02:22:37 PM
My top 5...

1) Declaration of Independence
2) Constitution
3) Thomas Paine's Common Sense and/or The Crisis (especially the 1st pamphlet)
4) Patrick Henry's address to the Virginia House of Burgesses ("Give me Liberty or give me Death!") speech
5) Joseph Warren's 1775 Boston Massacre Oration
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
– Thomas Paine
Common Sense; 1776

Flintlock54

#6
November 12, 2025, 05:06:43 PM
George Washington's farewell address
Acts 22:28. I was freeborn

Ohio Piper

#7
December 15, 2025, 09:15:32 PM
Been pondering this for a bit.  And some of you are quite a bit more well read than I, so I'm likely rehashing what's been previously hashed.

1) Mayflower Compact   
2) Dr. Warren's speech at Old South Meeting House (3/6/1775)
3) Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Statehouse
4) Declaration of independence
5) Constitution
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