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.
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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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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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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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