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.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.
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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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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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Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.
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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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