The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTOne cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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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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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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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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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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Politics make me sick.
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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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