The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTAction for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
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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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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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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 imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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