We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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.
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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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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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In 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.
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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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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 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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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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Politics make me sick.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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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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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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