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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
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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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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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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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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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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