We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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Politics make me sick.
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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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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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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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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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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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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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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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