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FOUNDED 1962

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  • “No man ever permanently helped a reform by lying on behalf of the reform. Tell the truth about it; and then you can expect to be believed when you tell further truths.”

    Pacific Theological Seminary
    Spring 1911

    September 20, 2011

  • “[A] man knows little of our political, social and industrial needs as a nation who does not know that… politics… affect women precisely as much as they affect men; and he must be unfortunate in his life of acquaintances if he does not know women whose advice and counsel are pre-eminently worth having in regard to the matters affecting our welfare…”

    St. Johnsbury Vermont
    August 30, 1912

    September 13, 2011

  • “Labor organizations are like other organizations, like organizations of capitalists; sometimes they act very well and sometimes they act very badly. We should consistently favor them when they act well, and as fearlessly oppose them when they act badly.”

    – Berkeley, California, March 23, 1911

    September 6, 2011

  • “In a time of sudden and wide-spread disaster, caused by a flood, a blizzard, an earthquake, or an epidemic, there may be ample reason for the extension of charity on the largest scale to everyone who needs it. But these conditions are wholly exceptional, and the methods of relief employed to meet them must also be treated as wholly exceptional … 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.”

    Essay on Civic Helpfulness, Published in the “Century,”
    October 1900

    August 30, 2011

  • “We have no higher duty than to promote the efficiency
    of the individual. There is no surer road
    to the efficiency of the nation.”

    – Ohio Constitutional Convention
    Columbus, Ohio, February 21, 1912

    August 23, 2011

  • “Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen;
    and the peoples of the world are watching
    to see whether we succeed or fail.”

    – Saratoga, New York, September 27, 1910

    August 16, 2011

  • “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.”

    – New York Assembly, 1884

    August 9, 2011

  • “The long path leading upward toward the light cannot be traversed at once, or in a day, or in a year. But there are certain steps that can be taken… Having taken these first steps, we shall see more
    clearly how to walk still further with a bolder stride.”

    – New York, October 30, 1912

    August 2, 2011

  • “I think very little of mere oratory. I feel an impatient contempt
    for the man of words if he is merely a man of words.”

    – Letter to Henry Cabot Lodge, July 19, 1908

    July 26, 2011

  • “From the days when civilized man first began to strive for self-government and democracy, success in this effort has depended primarily upon the ability to steer clear of extremes.”

    – The Metropolitan Magazine, December 1918

    July 19, 2011

  • “We welcome leadership, but we wish our leaders to understand that they derive their strength from us, and that, although we look to them for guidance, we expect this guidance to be in accordance with our interests and our ideals.”

    – The Outlook, July 9, 1910

    July 12, 2011

  • “Americanism is a question of spirit, conviction, and purpose, not of creed or birthplace.”

    – Forum, April 1894

    July 5, 2011

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