American Credo postal issues

Issued over a one-year period, the 4-cent stamps feature famous quotes from prominent Americans which are considered to eulogize the principles on which the United States was founded.

An opinion poll was taken which consulted one hundred distinguished Americans in public life, which included historians, and presidents of state universities, who collectively chose the given credos found on these stamp issues.

The quotes inscribed on the stamps are from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Frances Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, and Patrick Henry, and were released in that order.

Each stamp bears an inscription of the signature of the man who uttered the credo.

The first day of issue for the individual stamps occurred at a city or location appropriate to background of the man who uttered the given credo.