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As the greatest lessons of Nature through the universe are perhaps the lessons of variety and freedom, the same present the greatest lessons also in New World politics and progress.

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown’s execution onDecember 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860.

Excerpt from "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech by Malcolm X.

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"The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist, was published in 1788 by J. and A. M’Lean.

The Federalist Papers serve as a primary source for interpretation of the Constitution, as they outline the philosophy and motivation of the proposed system of government. The authors of the Federalist Papers wanted to both influence the vote in favor of ratification and shape future interpretations of the Constitution. According to historian Richard Morris, they are an "incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the product of any later American writer."

 "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.  We run the race of discovery against the Germans.  We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war; in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.  We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan’s power to make war."

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"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
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"The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear he merely exploited it and rather successfully. Cassius was right.  'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.'

"Good night, and good luck."

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"The Charter of the United Nations is the treaty which forms and establishes the international organization called the United Nations.

Kofi Annan has made his final speech as UN secretary general, calling on the US not to lose sight of its core principles in its fight on terror. 

"The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward – A New Approach, also simply known as the Baker Report or Baker-Hamilton Report, is a United States Congress-mandated assessment of the war in Iraq authored by the Iraq Study Group. The report was released to the public on December 6, 2006 both on the Internet and as a published book."