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 TAFTThe true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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