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.
"My first wish is
to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth"
George Washington
"Great is the guilt
of an unnecessary war"
John Adams
“Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty”
Thomas
Jefferson
"No nation could
preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare"
James Madison