“Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.” GivingPaySacrificeExampleMembersGiving UpIncreaseCharityCongressGood Examples Author:Tom Coburn
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.” KnowsGivingIndividualBalancePleaseProveMembersDollarsCharityInjusticeCongressAppropriatePermitActs Of CharityPublic Money Author:Davy Crockett
“The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great charities or community activities. It is not our beautiful rituals or their teachings! It is the 'practice of Freemasonry' by the Freemasons. Yet we cannot practice that which we do not know or understand. Thus Masonic education is the foundation for our Fraternity. Brother Carl H. Claudy in The Master's Book says, '.. one thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.” KnowsWorldGivingBookBeautifulCommunityPracticeOne ThingTeachingBuildingBrotherMastersGeniusActivityMembersOrganizationFoundationCharityTemplesRitualFraternityMasonicLodgesMasonryFreemasonry Author:Carl H. Claudy
“My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.” WayHelpingMembersDiedRaisesCharityInstanceSurvivingWidowsFamily MembersFirefighter Author:Denis Leary
“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members” WayCareInspiringSocietyCivilizationMembersTestsCharityHelplessPhilanthropyOld PeopleHelplessnessThis SocietyPhilanthropicDesertedSenior Citizen Author:Pearl S. Buck