The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThat all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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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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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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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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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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