Great Freemasons: Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757 - 1834)

"An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas, and the truth of prophecy, has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover, and with the conviction of a geometrician. On leaving college, where nothing had displeased me more than a state of dependance, I viewed the greatness and the littleness of the court with contempt, the frivolities of society with pity, the minute pedantry of the army with disgust, and oppression of every sort with indignation. The attraction of the American revolution transported me suddenly to my place. I felt myself tranquil only when sailing between the continent whose powers I had braved, and that where, although our arrival and our ultimate success were problematical, I could, at the age of nineteen, take refuge in the alternative of conquering or perishing in the cause to which I had devoted myself.
o Letter to the Bailli de Ploën, as quoted in Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette (1836) by Jules Germain Cloquet, Vol. I, p. 24

A Message From John Waters

Great Freemasons: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

(Claremore Lodge No. 53, OK)

Merrie Melodies - Daffy Duck the Wizard

Great Freemasons: John Glenn

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
John Glenn

(Concord Lodge No. 688, New Concord, Ohio)

William Shatner is Iron Man!

Great Freemasons: Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989)

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
Irving Berlin

(Munn Lodge No. 190, New York)

Great Freemasons: Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723)

"Architecture aims at eternity" Christopher Wren

(Master of Lodge Original, No. 1, now the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2)

Great Freemasons: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

"Creation is a drug I can't do without." Cecil B. DeMille

(Prince of Orange Lodge No. 16, New York City)

Great Freemasons: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

"Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. Such things did not need as much emphasis a generation ago, but when the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers; by disbursing universities, and by censoring news and literature and art; an added burden, an added burden is placed on those countries where the courts of free thought and free learning still burn bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation."

(Holland Lodge No. 8, New York)