Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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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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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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