The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Politics make me sick.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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