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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTMy 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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The 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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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 true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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