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We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.
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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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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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.
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He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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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.
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My 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.
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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 glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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