There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTToo many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.
More William Howard Taft Quotes
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The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.
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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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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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Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.
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We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.
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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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I don’t know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that’s by the Constitution.
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Politics make me sick.
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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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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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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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