I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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