Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
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.
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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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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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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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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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
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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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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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