The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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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.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won’t then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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