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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.

William Howard Taft

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
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Court Forever President
The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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Carry Tools True Work
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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Himself Increase Level Tools Work
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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Basis Constitution Government Law Limitation
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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Enthusiasm Judgement Reason
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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Commercial Goal Ideal Policy Sound
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
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Cleaning Game Sports
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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Bring Character Experience Flaw Personality Trace True
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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Application Average Control Definite End Goal Man Mental
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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Experience Hard Work Modern Myself Progress
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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Basis Effort Enterprise Human Labor Propose Social Substitution
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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Amusement Athletics Cleaning Enjoyment Game Presence Straight
Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.
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Feeling heavy Office Power Promise Responsibility
In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

Better Exception Interest Lose Performance Presence Satisfaction Work

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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