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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Brain Children Himself Man People
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cleaning Game Sports
We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Beginning Change Mindset Myself
Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Understand Writing Yourself
The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Kind Knowledge Power Reminder Suggestion
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Carry Tools True Work
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Act Golf Goodness Health Man Play Sports
We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Decent Exercise Government Power
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Constitution Drift End Reality Stand Thinking
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Experience Hard Work Modern Myself Progress
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Expectation Government Perfection
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Afraid Disappointment Man Myself Party
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cloud Growth Politics President Rain Way
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Action Administration Law Responsibility
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Himself Increase Level Tools Work
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Beginning Exercise Impose Limitation Myself Power

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

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