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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

William Howard Taft

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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Country Farmer Platform Vital
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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Court God Heaven Judgement Love
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.
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Beginning Exercise Impose Limitation Myself Power
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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Himself Increase Level Tools Work
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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Important Live Politics Result Stage Time
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Enthusiasm Judgement Reason
Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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Feeling Myself Politics Sick
Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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Food Funny Vitamin
I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Happiness Lonely Myself Place World
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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Action Check Constitution Minority People Security
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Country Favor Help Myself Prosperity Value
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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Administration Character Commercial Policy Present
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
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.
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Beginning Change Mindset Myself
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Action Administration Law Responsibility
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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Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental

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