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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.

William Howard Taft

Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Action Care People
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Enthusiasm Judgement Reason
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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Country Farmer Platform Vital
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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Greatness Irritation Moral Myself Order Rule Stand
I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Happiness Lonely Myself Place World
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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Belief Combination Darkness Land Religious Secret Society
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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Cloud Growth Politics President Rain Way
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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Himself Increase Level Tools Work
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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Believe Divine Subscription
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Brain Children Himself Man People
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Country Cut Place
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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Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Action Administration Law Responsibility
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Expectation Government Perfection
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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Human Nature People Quite Rule Strong
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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Commercial Goal Ideal Policy Sound
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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Amusement Athletics Cleaning Enjoyment Game Presence Straight
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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Constitution Drift End Reality Stand Thinking
I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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Admire Chief Himself Man Myself Offering
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Newspaper Sea Truth Worry Yourself
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
The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Kind Knowledge Power Reminder Suggestion
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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Conservation Greatness People
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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Attitude Degree Early Hold Need Teaching
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Character Condition Perfection Responsibility Strive True
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Courage Dare Greatness High Realization Sacrifice

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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