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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
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Man Mistake Thinking Weakness
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Court Forever President
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Administration Character Commercial Policy Present
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
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Candidate Country Myself People Thinking
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Calculation Children Early Factory Pass
We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Decent Exercise Government Power
The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cheerful Lost Win
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Gospel Mason Obligation Universal
Politics make me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

One Liner Politics Sick
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Better Exception Interest Lose Performance Presence Satisfaction Work
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Bad Force Rest System Time
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Attitude Degree Early Hold Need Teaching
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Action Check Constitution Minority People Security

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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