Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which […]
The Capital A Critique of Political Economy [1867]
Preface to the First German Edition The work, the first volume of which I now submit to the public, forms the continuation of my Zur Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie (A Contribution to the Criticism […]
On The Jewish Question [1844]
I Bruno Bauer, The Jewish Question, Braunschweig, 1843 The German Jews desire emancipation. What kind of emancipation do they desire? Civic, political emancipation. Bruno Bauer replies to them: No one in Germany is politically […]
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Contents Preamble I: Bourgeois and Proletarians II: Proletarians and Communists III: Socialist and Communist Literature IV: Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties A spectre is haunting […]
Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith[1847]
Works of Frederick Engels 1847 Question 1: Are you a Communist? Answer: Yes. Question 2: What is the aim of the Communists? Answer: To organise society in such a way that every […]
Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx [1883]
Highgate Cemetery, London. March 17, 1883 On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for […]
The Monroe Doctrine [ USA 1823]
Keywords: Policy of the United States from President James Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823: At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing […]
To those who keep slaves, and approve the practice[USA 1794]
Keywords : Slavery Richard Allen, 1794 The judicious part of mankind will think it unreasonable that a superior good conduct is looked for from our race, by those who stigmatize us as […]
Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery[USA 1790]
Signed by Benjamin Franklin, President of the Pennsylvania Society, February 3, 1790 To the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States, The Memorial of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition […]
Washington’s Farewell Address[USA 1796]
President George Washington’s Farewell Address — 1796 Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far […]
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address[USA 1861]
March 4, 1861 Fellow citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly, and to take, in […]
The Pledge of Allegiance [1892]
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931). It was originally published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge […]
The American’s Creed [1918]
by William Tyler Page I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the […]
The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery[1493]
As I know you will be rejoiced at the glorious success that our Lord has given me in my voyage, I write this to tell you how in thirty-three days I sailed […]
Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream Speech”[1963]
August 28, 1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score […]
THE MAGNA CARTA[UK]
Preamble John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the archbishop, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciaries, foresters, sheriffs, […]
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION [ 1777]
To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New […]
The Declaration of Independence [ of America 1776]
of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people […]
