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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.

William Howard Taft

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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Brain Humor People Race Safety
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Element Fight Oneself Stand Win
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cheerful Lost Win
The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Life Myself President Remember Truth
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Admire Chief Himself Man Myself Offering
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Afraid Disappointment Man Myself Party
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Liegislative Save World
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Equality Law Man Privilege Society Trade Understand
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Myself Talk Trouble
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Fair Myself Play Reserve Right
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Gospel Mason Obligation Universal
The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Himself Increase Level Tools Work
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Benefit Government People Welfare
The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Flaw Hesitation Personal Tools Work
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Commercial Goal Ideal Policy Sound

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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