The American Legion
For God and Country We Associate
Ourselves Together For The
Following Purposes:
United States of America; To maintain law
and order; To foster and perpetuate a one
hundred percent Americanism; To preserve
the memories and incidents of our associations
in the great wars; To inculcate a sense of
individual obligation to the community, state
and nation; to combat the autocracy of both
the classes and the masses; To make right the
master of might; To promote peace and good
will on earth; To safeguard and transmit to
posterity the principles of justice, freedom and
democracy; To consecrate and sanctify our
comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.