One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTRepeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
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The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.
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The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
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I’ll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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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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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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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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We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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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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The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
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