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I 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.

William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Court Forever President
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Carry Tools True Work
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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Believe Divine Subscription
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Cleaning Game Sports
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Country Cut Place
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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Action Check Constitution Minority People Security
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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Kind Knowledge Power Reminder Suggestion
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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Admire Chief Himself Man Myself Offering
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Liegislative Save World
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 TAFT

Anxious Legislation Office Quit Security Willing
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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Important Live Politics Result Stage Time
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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Job Myself President Tired Tourists
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Better Development Progress Rare Remedy Requirement
We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Decent Exercise Government Power
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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Cloud Growth Politics President Rain Way
I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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Afraid Disappointment Man Myself Party
I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Happiness Lonely Myself Place World
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Feeling Ourselves Way World
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Bad Force Rest System Time
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Country Favor Help Myself Prosperity Value
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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Administration Character Commercial Policy Present
The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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Attitude Degree Early Hold Need Teaching
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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Belief Combination Darkness Land Religious Secret Society
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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Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental
We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Calculation Children Early Factory Pass
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Commercial Goal Ideal Policy Sound

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