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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTWe are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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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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Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
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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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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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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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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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