The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTPolitics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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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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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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