No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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 true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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