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From Quotes by William Howard Taft
- 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…
- The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but…
- 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…
- 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…
- The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement…
- A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
- George Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man,…
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