Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
Theodore RooseveltRead
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
Interpretation
Freemasonry promotes virtues like love and justice while opposing ignorance and tyranny.
In this quote, Theodore Roosevelt highlights the core tenets of Freemasonry, emphasizing its commitment to moral virtues such as temperance and justice, alongside essential principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity. He contrasts these ideals with the negative forces of ignorance and tyranny, advocating for a society that values enlightenment and mutual respect among its members.
In practice
This quote can be used in speeches to inspire unity and promote social justice.
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Conservation means development as much as it does protection._x000D_ _x000D_ A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 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 at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
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