CREED

NORWICH CADET’S CREED 1927

I believe that the cardinal virtues of the individual are courage, honesty, temperance and

wisdom; and that the true measure of success is service rendered–to God, to Country,

and to Mankind.

I believe that the fundamental problem of society is to maintain a free government wherein

liberty may be secured through obedience to law, and that a citizen soldiery is the corner

stone upon which such a government must rest.

I believe that real education presupposes a sense of proportion in physical, mental, and

moral development; and that he alone is educated who has learned the lessons of self

control and open-mindedness.

I believe in Norwich, my Alma Mater, because within her halls throughout the years these

tenets have found expression while men have been taught to be loyal to duly constituted

authority in thought and word and deed; to view suffrage as a sacred privilege to be

exercised only in accordance with the dictates of conscience; to regard public office as

a public trust; and finally to fight, and if need be to die, in defense of the cherished

institutions of America.