No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTNext to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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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.
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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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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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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 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
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I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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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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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
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The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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