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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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
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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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The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.
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We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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 laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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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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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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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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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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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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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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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.
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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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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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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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