The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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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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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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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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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.
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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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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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.
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