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"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe

"Annabel Lee" (1849), by Edgar Allan Poe

The Source of American Religious Liberty

"Crossing the Bar," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Noah Webster on the importance of the Christian religion to "[securing] the rights and privileges of a free people"

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Letter to President Martin Van Buren on the "terrific injury" done to the Cherokee nation

It is not the critic who counts, but the doer of deeds

"The Defense of Fort McHenry," by Francis Scott Key

The Bill of Rights, a shield against tyrants

Thomas Jefferson on the individual's right to defend himself against tyranny