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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.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Enthusiasm Judgement Reason
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Cleaning Game Sports
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 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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Himself Increase Level Tools Work
We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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Beginning Change Mindset Myself
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
Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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Feeling Myself Politics Sick
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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Greatness Impression Introduction Revolution Trade
I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Happiness Lonely Myself Place World
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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Fair Myself Play Reserve Right
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
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
Politics make me sick.
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One Liner Politics Sick
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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Experience Hard Work Modern Myself Progress
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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Courage Dare Greatness High Realization Sacrifice

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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