THE AMERICAN FLAG AND AMERICAN IDEALS
Equality
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal;
That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable 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. Thomas Jefferson
Humanity
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. Abraham Lincoln
Service
- God hath made of one blood all nations of men, and we are his children, brothers and sisters all.
- We are citizens of these United States, and we believe our Flag stands for self-sacrifice for the good of all the people. We want, therefore, to be true citizens of our great country, and will show our love for her by our works.
- Our country asks us to live for her, and so to live and so to act that her government may be pure, her officers honest, and every corner of her territory shall be a place fit to grow the best men and women, who shall rule over her. Mary McDowell
Education and Americanization
- The Flag means universal education light for every mind, knowledge for every child. We must have but one flag. We must also have but one language.
- This must be the language of the Declaration of Independence Woodrow Wilson
Righteousness
- I have lived a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth,
- That God Governs in the Affairs of Men.
- And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it possible that an empire can rise without his aid ?
- We have been assured in the sacred writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. Benjamin Franklin
World Brotherhood
- But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free, Woodrow Wilson
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