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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTConstitutions 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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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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.
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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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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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