THE AMERICAN’S CREED

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are drived form the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseperable; established upon those principles of freedom, equaltiy, justice and humanity for which American Patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to boey its. laws; to respect its Flag; and to defend it against all enemies.
William Tyler Page

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

(First and fourth verses)
Oh! say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Oh! Thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolations,
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n-rescured land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto, “In God is our Trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

–Francis Scott Key