Ideals and values shared by all Americans.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [people] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men [the people], deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

                             Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

                                  “E Pluribus Unum” -- From Many, One”

                                                             The Great Seal of The United States, June 20, 1782

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

               Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, September 17, 1787

                                “The Bill of Rights”

                                                Amendments I through X to the Constitution of the United States,
                                                March 4, 1789

“…that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

                           Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19,1863