Politics make me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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 shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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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.
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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
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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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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.
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