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  • “Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.”

    Speech in Groton, Massachusetts
    May 24, 1904

    Wisdom from our 26th President – March 9, 2021

  • “A man is worthless unless he has in him a lofty devotion to an ideal.”

    The Outlook
    July 28, 1900

    Wisdom from our 26th President – March 2, 2021

  • “If as a nation we are split into warring camps, if we teach our citizens not to look upon one another as brothers but as enemies divided by the hatred of creed for creed, surely we shall fail.”

    Speech in New York City, October 12, 1915

    Wisdom from our 26th President – February 23, 2021

  • “No man is fit to hold the position of President of the United States at all unless as President he feels that he represents no party but the people as a whole.”

    Speech in Dallas, Texas
    April 5, 1905

    Wisdom from our 26th President – February 16, 2021

  • “I would rather go out of politics feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I had acted as I ought not to.”

    Speech in the New York Assembly
    March 2, 1883

    Wisdom from our 26th President – February 9, 2021

  • “In a government like ours, a man can accomplish anything only by acting in combination with others.”

    Forum

    July, 1894

    Wisdom from our 26th President – February 2, 2021

  • “It is always easy for an individual or a party to make promises; the strain comes when the party or individual has to make them good.”

    Speech in Baltimore, MD,
    February 23, 1889

    Wisdom from our 26th President – January 26, 2021

  • “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

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