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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

William Howard Taft

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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Oneself President State Truth
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
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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Basis Constitution Government Law Limitation
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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Fair Myself Play Reserve Right
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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Candidate Majority Myself President
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Cleaning Game Sports
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Brain Children Himself Man People
I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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Myself People President Profession Simplicity Talk Tired
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
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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Belief Combination Darkness Land Religious Secret Society
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 laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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Equality Law Man Privilege Society Trade Understand
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.
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Experience Hard Work Modern Myself Progress
The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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Flaw Hesitation Personal Tools Work
We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Decent Exercise Government Power
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Court Forever President

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