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 TAFTI 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.
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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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