Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation…. What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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