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 TAFTA man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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 game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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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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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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