THE AMERICAN LEGION PREAMBLE

For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: 

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the 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 all 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.