The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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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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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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Politics make me sick.
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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 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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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.
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