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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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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 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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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