The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Politics make me sick.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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