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.
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.
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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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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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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 intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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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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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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