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FOUNDED 1962
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“I wonder whether there ever can come in life a thrill of greater exaltation and rapture than that which comes to one between the ages of say six and fourteen, when the library door is thrown open and you walk in to see all the gifts, like a materialized fairyland, arrayed on your special table?”
-Letter to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, December 26, 1903
“No student of American history needs to be reminded that the Constitution itself is a bundle of compromises.”
-Atlantic Monthly, August 1894
“If the business world loses its head, it loses what legislation cannot supply.”
First Annual Message to Congress
December 3, 1901
“Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don’t hit if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don’t hit at all if you can help it; don’t hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.”
National Press Club, Washington, DC.
January 24, 1918
“I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of today unless he has some knowledge of — a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of — the history of the world of the past.”
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