Bases Quote by Anonymous

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

— Andrew Jackson

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life…

— Anonymous

Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the…

— Andrew Jackson

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

— George Washington

Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and…

— Anonymous

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be…

— George Washington

Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge…

— Anonymous

Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

— Anonymous

Freemasonry is a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols.

— Hemming

The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by…

— William Howard Taft

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry,…

— Theodore Roosevelt