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William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Court Forever President
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
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Act Golf Goodness Health Man Play Sports
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Constitution Drift End Reality Stand Thinking
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Irritation Moral Myself Order Rule Stand
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Himself Increase Level Tools Work
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Greatness Man Mistake Thinking Weakness
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Myself People President Profession Simplicity Talk Tired
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Fair Myself Play Reserve Right
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Administration Best Effort Myself Politics Time Try
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Admire Chief Himself Man Myself Offering
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Enthusiasm Judgement Reason
The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cultivation Degree Herself Life Possible Strive
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Human Nature People Quite Rule Strong
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
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Cloud Growth Politics President Rain Way
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Charity Faith God Love Man Purity Representation System Universal
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Basis Effort Enterprise Human Labor Propose Social Substitution
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Constitution Gurantee Liberty Property Right
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
Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Food Funny Vitamin
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Country Cut Place
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

Action Check Constitution Minority People Security
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Feeling Ourselves Way World
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Myself Talk Trouble
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Character Condition Perfection Responsibility Strive True
There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Deep Development Interest Move On Myself Recommendation Subject

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