The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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