There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration. William Howard Taft More Quotes by William Howard Taft More Quotes From William Howard Taft Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. William Howard Taft views mind art 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. William Howard Taft credit weakness men 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. William Howard Taft degrees tools attitude Politics make me sick William Howard Taft sick wisdom witty The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval. William Howard Taft government rights school The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands. William Howard Taft amusement baseball games 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. William Howard Taft hard-work christian civilization 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. William Howard Taft patriotism real thinking I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality. William Howard Taft states doubt thinking I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress. William Howard Taft progress uplifting order We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way. William Howard Taft atheism may world 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. William Howard Taft law class men One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic. William Howard Taft banking reform law 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 administration politics trying 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. William Howard Taft suggestions presidential restriction The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere. William Howard Taft masons masonic tools 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. William Howard Taft speech white house It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary. William Howard Taft government views law It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism. William Howard Taft heart giving country 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. William Howard Taft united-states revolution west