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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
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Cincinnati
Ohio
William Taft
William H. Taft
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W. H. Taft
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
William Howard Taft
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.
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I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.
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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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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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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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Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.
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The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.
William Howard Taft
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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