The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws. - William Howard Taft

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We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders. . . In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

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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 of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

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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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Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you. . . take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.

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A government is for the benefit of all the people.

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The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose. . . . The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.

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