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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

William Howard Taft

We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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Calculation Children Early Factory Pass
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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Gospel Mason Obligation Universal
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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Action Check Constitution Minority People Security
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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Constitution Drift End Reality Stand Thinking
We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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Capital Dependent Investment
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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Newspaper Sea Truth Worry Yourself
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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Better Development Progress Rare Remedy Requirement
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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Deep Development Interest Move On Myself Recommendation Subject
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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Attitude Degree Early Hold Need Teaching
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Expectation Government Imperfection
Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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Feeling Myself Politics Sick
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Action Administration Law Responsibility
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Character Condition Perfection Responsibility Strive True
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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Greatness Impression Introduction Revolution Trade
I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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Administration Best Effort Myself Politics Time Try
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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Conservation Greatness People

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