Author: Ripon Society
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December 11, 2013
“The man who, in the long run, will count for most in bettering municipal life is the man who actually steps down into the hurly-burly, who is not frightened by the sweat and the blood, and the blows of friends and foes.” The Outlook December 21, 1895
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“I look at the Affordable Care Act as the best ‘no’ vote I’ve had.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With concerns over the Affordable Care Act increasing every day, The Ripon Society hosted a breakfast discussion yesterday morning with four members of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health, who are leading the effort to repeal the law and replace it with a reform plan that controls costs, cuts red tape,…
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Albuquerque Journal gives nod to Ripon Forum focus on Governors Susana Martinez & Chris Christie
Albuquerque Journal gives nod to Ripon Forum focus on Governors Susana Martinez & Chris Christie
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December 3, 2013
“The good citizen is the man who, whatever his wealth or his poverty, strives manfully to do his duty to himself, to his family, to his neighbor, to the state; who is incapable of the baseness which manifests itself either in arrogance or envy, but who while demanding justice for himself is no less scrupulous…
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November 26, 2013
“Americanism is not a matter of birthplace, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation. Americanism is a matter of the spirit that is within, of a man’s soul. From the time when we first became an independent Nation to the present moment there has never been a generation in which some of our most distinguished and…
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November 19, 2013
“The tyranny of politicians with a bureaucracy behind them and a mass of ignorant people supporting them would be just as insufferable as the tyranny of big corporations.” The Outlook June 19, 1909
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“Better schools mean better jobs.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Ripon Society held a breakfast discussion this past Thursday morning with two men who are leading the effort to strengthen and reform the educational system in the United States.
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November 12, 2013
“No other citizens deserve so well of the Republic as the veterans, the survivors of those who saved the Union. They did the one deed which if left undone would have meant that all else in our history went for nothing.” First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1901
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November 5, 2013
“All that the law can do is to shape things that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff there is in him.” Kansas City, Missouri, May 1, 1903
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October 29, 2013
“A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics. No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election.” Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910
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“Great things have always been done at the intersection of principle and compromise.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With partisan tensions running high on Capitol Hill in the wake of the government shutdown, The Ripon Society and the Franklin Center held a breakfast discussion yesterday morning featuring a bipartisan working group of House Members who have been meeting on a regular basis in an attempt to put politics aside and…
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October 22, 2013
“I believe in realizable ideals and in realizing them, in preaching what can be practiced and then in practicing it.” An Autobiography, 1913