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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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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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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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