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FOUNDED 1962

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  • “In this country we must all stand together absolutely without regard to our several lines of descent, as Americans and nothing else.”

    Fear God and Take Your Own Part,
    1916

    Wisdom from our 26th President – January 19, 2021

  • “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”

    Metropolitan Magazine,
    May, 1918

    Wisdom from our 26th President – January 12, 2021

  • “We believe with all our hearts in democracy; in the capacity of the people to govern themselves; and we are bound to succeed.”

    Speech in Saratoga, New York
    September 27, 1910

    Wisdom from our 26th President – January 5, 2021

  • “Christmas was an occasion of literally delirious joy. In the evening we hung up our stockings — or rather the biggest stockings we could borrow from the grown-ups — and before dawn we trooped in to open them while sitting on father’s and mother’s bed; and the bigger presents were arranged, those for each child on its own table, in the drawing-room, the doors to which were thrown open after breakfast. I never knew anyone else have what seemed to me such attractive Christmases, and in the next generation I tried to reproduce them exactly for my own children.”

    An Autobiography
    1913

    Wisdom from our 26th President – December 22, 2020

  • “Our own political fortunes, individually and collectively, are of no consequence whatever when compared with the honor and welfare of the people of the United States.”

    Speech to the Progressive National Committee
    June 22, 1916

    Wisdom from our 26th President – December 15, 2020

  • “The prime and all-important lesson to learn is that while preparedness will not guarantee a nation against war, unpreparedness eventually insures not merely war, but utter disaster.”

    Metropolitan, August, 1915

    Wisdom from our 26th President – December 8, 2020

  • “A man must have in him a strong and earnest sense of duty and the desire to accomplish good for the commonwealth, without regard to the effect upon himself.”

    Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, October, 1892

    Wisdom from our 26th President – December 1, 2020

  • “It is eminently fitting that once a year our people should set apart a day for praise and thanksgiving to the Giver of Good.”

    Proclamation
    November 2, 1905

    Wisdom from our 26th President – November 24, 2020

  • “There are many qualities which we need alike in private citizen and in public man… courage, honesty, and common sense.”

    Inaugural Address as Governor
    January 2, 1899

    Wisdom from our 26th President – November 17, 2020

  • “We believe in all our hearts in democracy; in the capacity of the people to govern themselves.”

    Speech in Saratoga, NY
    September 27, 1910

    Wisdom from our 26th President – November 10, 2020

  • “I want to see every man vote. I would rather have you come to the polls even if you voted against me than have you shirk your duty.”

    Speech in Richland, NY
    October 29, 1898

    Wisdom from our 26th President – November 3, 2020

  • “In the ordinary and low sense which we attach to the words ‘partisan’ and ‘politician,’ a judge of the Supreme Court should be neither.”

    Letter to Henry Cabot Lodge, July 10, 1902

    Wisdom from our 26th President – October 27, 2020

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