The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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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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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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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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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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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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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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