• “In America today all sure people are summoned to service and sacrifice.”

    In the Metropolitan
    October 1918

    Wisdom from our 26th President – July 28, 2020

  • “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.”

    Speech in New York City
    May 30, 1899

    Wisdom from our 26th President – July 21, 2020

  • “I hold no other class of people in our community in quite the regard that I hold the American teacher who is moulding the American nation of tomorrow.”

    Speech before the Iowa State Teachers Association
    November 4, 1910

    Wisdom from our 26th President – July 14, 2020

  • “The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”

    Speech in New York
    November 11, 1902

    Wisdom from our 26th President – July 7, 2020

  • “It is not the critic who counts… the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly… who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

    Speech in Paris
    April 23, 1910

    Wisdom from our 26th President – June 30, 2020

  • “No man is above the law and no man is below it.”

    Third Annual Message
    December 7, 1903

    Wisdom from our 26th President – June 23, 2020

  • “Justice consists not in being neutral between right and being wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

    Fear God and Take Your Own Part
    1916

    Wisdom from our 26th President – June 16, 2020

  • “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.”

    In the Kansas City Star
    April 6, 1918

    Wisdom from our 26th President – June 9, 2020

  • “No public servant who is worth his salt should hesitate to stand by his conscience.”

    Speech in New York City
    October 20, 1911

    Wisdom from our 26th President – June 2, 2020

  • “Good legislation does not secure good government, which can come only through a good administration.”

    Speech in New York
    May 25, 1900

    Wisdom from our 26th President – May 26, 2020

  • “An honest, courageous, and far-sighted politician is a good thing in any country.”

    Speech in Cairo, Egypt
    March 28, 1910

    Wisdom from our 26th President – May 19, 2020

  • “A strong and wise people will study its own failures no less than its triumphs, for there is wisdom to be learned from the study of both.”

    Sixth Annual Message
    December 3, 1906

    Wisdom from our 26th President – May 12, 2020