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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

William Howard Taft

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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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Act Golf Goodness Health Man Play Sports
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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Human Nature People Quite Rule Strong
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Liegislative Save World
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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Greatness Man Mistake Thinking Weakness
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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Conservation Greatness People
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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Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Kick Myself President Tired
We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Calculation Children Early Factory Pass
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Carry Tools True Work
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Expectation Government Perfection
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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Belief Combination Darkness Land Religious Secret Society
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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Candidate Country Myself People Thinking
Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Action Care People
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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Feeling Myself Politics Sick

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