The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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 truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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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 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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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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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