The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTIn the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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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.
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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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.
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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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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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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.
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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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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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