Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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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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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.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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