The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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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 truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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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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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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