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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

William Howard Taft

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
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
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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Equality Law Man Privilege Society Trade Understand
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Myself Talk Trouble
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental
The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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Flaw Hesitation Personal Tools Work
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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Administration Character Commercial Policy Present
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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Constitution Gurantee Liberty Property Right
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Country Cut Place
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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Beginning Exercise Impose Limitation Myself Power
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Kick Myself President Tired
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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Benefit Government People Welfare
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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Greatness Man Mistake Thinking Weakness
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 TAFT

Job Myself President Tired Tourists
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Carry Tools True Work
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Brain Humor People Race Safety
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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Important Live Politics Result Stage Time
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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Basis Effort Enterprise Human Labor Propose Social Substitution
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.
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Kind Knowledge Power Reminder Suggestion
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Brain Children Himself Man People
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Impression Introduction Revolution Trade
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 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
Politics make me sick.
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One Liner Politics Sick
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
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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Conservation Greatness People
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Belief Combination Darkness Land Religious Secret Society

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