We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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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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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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