• “The importance of a promise lies not in making it, but in keeping it.”

    An Autobiography
    1913

    July 23, 2013

  • “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time, and if a country lets the time for wise action pass, it may bitterly repent when a generation later it strives under disheartening difficulties to do what could have been done so easily if attempted at the right moment.”

    Letter to Edward Grey
    November 15, 1913

    WISDOM FROM OUR 26TH PRESIDENT – July 17, 2013

  • “The insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.”

    Letter to Ray Stannard Baker
    November 20, 1905

    July 9, 2013

  • “It is a good thing to read the Declaration of Independence every Fourth of July; it is a good thing to talk of what Washington and
    his fellows did for us; but what counts most is how we live
    up to the lessons that we read or that we speak of.”

    – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1902

    July 2, 2013

  • “The candidate is the candidate of a party; but if the president is worth his salt he is the president of the whole people”

    – Little Rock, Arkansas, October 25, 1905

    June 25, 2013

  • “No man is fit for control who does not possess intelligence, self-respect, and respect for the just rights of others.”

    – The Foes of Our Own Household, 1917

    June 18, 2013

  • “Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion
    and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his
    life as he desires, provided only that in so he
    does not wrong his neighbor.”

    – Paris, France, April 23, 1910

    June 11, 2013

  • “Power always brings with it responsibility. You cannot have power to work well without having so much power as to be able
    to work ill, if you turn yourselves that way.”

    – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 7, 1910

    June 4, 2013

  • “On this day, the 30th of May, 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, who poured out their blood
    like water in order that the mighty national structure raised by
    the fair-seeing genius of Washington, Franklin, Marshall,
    Hamilton and the other great leaders of the Revolution,
    great framers of the Constitution, should not
    crumble into meaningless ruins.”

    – Arlington, VA, May 30, 1902

    May 28, 2013

  • “We are not to be excused if we fail to hold our public men to a rigid accountability if they fail, in their turn, to see that we have proper legislation and proper administration. No public man
    worth his salt will be other than glad to be held
    accountable in that fashion.”

    – San Francisco, California, May 14, 1903

    May 21, 2013

  • “We can as little afford to tolerate a dishonest man in the
    public service as a coward in the army.”

    – Washington, DC, October 15, 1903

    May 14, 2013

  • “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty first, the love
    of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

    – Letter to the Proceedings of the Congress
    of Constructive Patriotism, January 10, 1917

    May 7, 2013