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 game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.
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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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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 policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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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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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
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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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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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