The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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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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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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