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  • “Government by the people means that the people have the right to do their own thinking and to do their own speaking about their public servants.”

    The Kansas City Star
    April 6, 1918

    Wisdom from our 26th President – August 18, 2026

  • “In achieving good government the fundamental factor must be the character of the average citizen.”

    Speech in Antietam, Maryland
    September 17, 1903

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – August 11, 2026

  • “I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

    Speech in Des Moines, Iowa
    November 4, 1910

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – August 4, 2026

  • “If the man does his duty as a man, if he is fearless and honorable, upright in his dealings with his fellows, if he does his duty to his family, to the state, that is all that we have the right to ask about him.”

    Speech at the Exposition Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    April 3, 1903

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – July 28, 2026

  • “We must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”

    Speech in Chicago, Illinois
    April 10, 1899

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – July 21, 2026

  • “We are in honor bound each to strive according to his or her strength to bring ever nearer the day when justice and wisdom shall obtain in public life as in private life.”

    Remarks at Colorado Springs, Colorado
    August 2, 1901

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – July 14, 2026

  • “After all the very highest and most fundamental work of good citizenship is to leave the next generation in right shape.”

    Letter to Charles J. Frisch
    July 24, 1911

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – July 7, 2027

  • “A nation’s greatness lies in its possibility of achievement in the present, and nothing helps it more than the consciousness of achievement in the past.”

    American Ideals
    1897

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – June 23, 2026

  • “A man to be a good citizen must first be a good bread-winner, a good husband, a good father–I hope the father of many healthy children.”

    The Key to Success in Life
    1916

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – June 16, 2026

  • “The greatest possible good can be done by the extension of a helping hand at the right moment, but the attempt to carry any one permanently can end in nothing but harm.”

    Century
    October 1900

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – June 9, 2026

  • “The vital thing for the nation no less than the individual to remember is that, while dreaming and talking both have their uses, these uses must chiefly exist in seeing the dream realized and the talk turned into action.”

    Stafford Little Lecture at Princeton University,
    November 1917

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – June 2, 2026

  • “We call to mind the deaths of those who died that the nation might live, who wagered all that life holds dear for the great prize of death in battle.”

    Remarks on Memorial Day
    Arlington, Virginia, May 30, 1902

    Wisdom From Our 26th President – May 26, 2026

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