Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWhat 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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 true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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