I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.
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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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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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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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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 are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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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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