Epics

The Epics are filled with many inspiring passages, This from The Aeneid comes to mind

"Recall your courage; banish gloomy fears.Some day perhaps the memory of these things shall yield delight. Through various accidents, Through many a strait of fortune, we are bound For Latium, where our fates point out to us A quiet resting place. There it's decreed Troy's kingdom shall arise again. Be firm, And keep your hearts in hope of brighter days"

If America had an epic this would have to be included from the Declaration Of Independence.

"When in the course of Human events, it becomes necessary of one people to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them with another, and to assure among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Natures God entitled them ,a decent respect to the opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of the ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness, Prudence, indeed will dictate that Governments are established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer-able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpation's pursing invariably the same object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their duty to throw off such a government, and provide new Guards for their future Security."