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 TAFTI 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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.
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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.
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Politics make me sick.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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