God of the nations, ruler of all mankind,
we thank Thee
for the blessings of citizenship
in this great Nation,
conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the sublime concept
that all men are created equal.

As we accept these blessings,
we ask Thy help
to prove ourselves worthy of them.

As we enjoy the rewards
earned by the labors of our Founding Fathers,
may we understand
that the tasks they so nobly advanced
are never finished;
that liberty,
justice,
brotherhood,
and peace
are not possessions
or accomplished facts,
but ever goals to be reached,
a ceaseless process
demanding our best energies,
our consecrated zeal,
and our consuming love.

Bless our glorious land
which has become the hope and safety
of all the nations of the earth.
Our country has ever been
the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
America stretcheth forth
her hands to the poor;
yea, she reacheth forth
her hands to the needy.

In every generation
Thou hast raised up
prophets of righteousness
and champions of liberty:
godly men who broke the shackles of the enslaved
and infused new courage into faint hearts.
Ours is the firm belief
that hatred and bigotry are but momentary aberrations
in the conscience of mankind.
May our love for justice,
which recognizes neither rich nor poor,
strong nor weak,
class nor mass,
color nor creed,
ever inspire us so to labor and toil
that we may proclaim liberty
throughout the land
and to all the inhabitants thereof.
Amen.