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 TAFTWe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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 precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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