The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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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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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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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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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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