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
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe 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.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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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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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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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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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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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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