Floral Park Lodge #1016 F. & A. M.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. -Douglas MacArthur

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality. -George Washington

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. -Theodore Roosevelt

violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest. -Theodore Roosevelt

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere. -William Howard Taft

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -Mark Twain