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 TAFTThe true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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