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 TAFTThe true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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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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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 cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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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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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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