What 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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTI do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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 true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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