Why Do Men Become Freemasons?

• Not one person ever joined Freemasonry because Churchill was a Mason.

• Not one person ever joined Freemasonry because George Washington, John Wayne or Peter Sellers were Masons.

• Nobody ever joined Freemasonry because of our great Masonic heroes: Joining Freemasonry doesn't make you any of those people.

• Not one person ever joined so that they could give money to charity: You don't have to be a Freemason to give money to worthy causes.

• Not one person ever joined because of our attention to lodge rules, regulations or ritual. Outsiders don't know about all of our procedures.

• They joined because someone they knew and admired was a Mason. It could have been a father, a brother, a friend, a man down the street, or someone a thousand miles away.

• Who it was didn't matter. They admired him and wanted to do the things he did and they did it by the millions.

• If a mason wants to help promote Freemasonry, they must be the kind of man that other people admire. Someone will notice.