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.
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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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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 think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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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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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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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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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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