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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

William Howard Taft

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Constitution Gurantee Liberty Property Right
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
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Expectation Government Imperfection
I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Happiness Lonely Myself Place 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
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
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Constitution Drift End Reality Stand 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
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Better Development Progress Rare Remedy Requirement
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Court Forever President
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Basis Effort Enterprise Human Labor Propose Social Substitution
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Anxious Legislation Office Quit Security Willing
There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Deep Development Interest Move On Myself Recommendation Subject
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
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
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Action Administration Law Responsibility

I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

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