The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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 cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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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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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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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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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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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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