We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTThe game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
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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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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
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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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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
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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.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
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The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
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We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
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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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Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
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