Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWell, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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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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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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