We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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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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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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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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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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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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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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