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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.
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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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 make me sick
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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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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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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I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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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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The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.
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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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