The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTEnthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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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.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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