We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

-United Nations Charter
  26 Jun.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate asthefingers,yetoneasthehand inall things essentialto mutual progress.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
American      soldier      and      statesman,      first     President.      As commander of American forces in theWar of Independence he displayed   great   powers   of   leadership,   suffering   defeats   at Brandywine  and  Germantown,  but  holding  his  army  together through  the winter  of 1777^8  at Valley  Forge.  After  the  alliance with France (1778), he forced the surrender of Cornwallis (1781) then retired to MountVernon, and sought strong constitutional government.   In   1787   he   presided   over   the   Constitutional Convention   and   became   President,   eventually   joining   the Federalist Party, and retired in1797.