A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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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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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
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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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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
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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.
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No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
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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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My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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